Producers nationwide are invited to apply for the U.S.
Department of Agriculture’s Conservation
Stewardship Program (CSP). Authorized in the 2008 Farm Bill,
CSP offers payments to producers who maintain a high level of
conservation on their land and who agree to adopt higher levels
of stewardship. Eligible lands include cropland, pastureland,
rangeland and non-industrial forestland.
The deadline to be considered for the next ranking and
funding period is June 11, 2010.
Congress limited enrollment for CSP nationally at 12.7
million acres per year. Applicants will compete within
state-identified ranking pools. CSP is offered in all 50 states, District of Columbia, and the Pacific and Caribbean areas through continuous sign-ups with announced
cut-off application dates for ranking periods.
As part of the CSP application process,
you'll work with NRCS field personnel to complete your
resource inventory using a Conservation Measurement Tool
(CMT). The CMT determines the conservation performance for
existing and additional conservation activities.
The documents below are copies of the
resource inventory questions, grouped by land use. You can
download and review the questions, and begin drafting
responses to start resource inventory process before you
complete the CMT in your local
NRCS office.
The documents below require
Adobe
Acrobat Reader.
CMT Tool Crop Questions (PDF, 59KB)
CMT Tool Forest General Questions (PDF, 10KB)
CMT Tool Forest Questions (PDF, 15KB)
CMT Tool General Questions (PDF, 10KB)
CMT Tool Pasture Questions (PDF, 16KB)
CMT Tool Range Questions (PDF, 12KB)
CMT Tool Water Questions (PDF, 10KB)
