Conservation Stewardship Program | NRCS
| Your Stewardship Goals. Our Assistance. Have you ever looked across your farm or ranch and thought about elevating your land management goals? Maybe we can help. Together we can develop a plan tailored to your operation and your goals to help you increase productivity and protect the value of your land. How It Works Our Conservation Stewardship Program (CSP) helps you build on your existing conservation efforts while strengthening your operation. Whether you are looking to improve grazing conditions, increase crop resiliency, or develop wildlife habitat, we can custom design a CSP plan to help you meet those goals. We can help you identify natural resource problems in your operation and provide technical and financial assistance to solve those problems or attain higher stewardship levels in an environmentally beneficial and cost-effective manner. For example, we can look at ways to address the amount of soil lost; mitigate the impact of excess water; reduce the contribution of agricultural operations to airborne soil particles and greenhouse gas emissions; improve the cover, food, and water available for domestic and wildlife species; or promote energy efficiencies for on-farm activities. If you are already taking steps to improve the condition of the land, chances are CSP can help you find new ways to meet your goals. Benefits CSP is for working lands. It is the largest conservation program in the United States. Thousands of people voluntarily enroll in the program because it helps them enhance natural resources and improve their business operation. CSP participants are seeing real results. Some of these benefits include: Enhanced resiliency to weather and market volatility Decreased need for agricultural inputs Improved wildlife habitat conditions New CSP Grasslands Conservation Initiative This new initiative assists producers in protecting grazing land uses; conserving and improving soil, water and wildlife resources; and achieving related conservation values by conserving eligible land through grassland conservation contracts. Eligible lands are limited to cropland for which base acres have been maintained under FSA’s ARC/PLC and were planted to grass or pasture, including idle or fallow, during a specific period. Enrolled acreage must be managed consistently with a grassland conservation plan. Producers will have a single opportunity to enroll eligible land in a five-year contract. CSP Data, FY2009 – Present NRCS program results data are housed on the RCA Data Viewer. CSP data for FY2009 to the present are available on the CSP data page. Your CSP Corn Cotton Crops Dairy Forestry Livestock Organics Pork Poultry Rice Soil Health Sorghum Soybeans Wheat Wildlife |