The Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) provides technical and financial assistance to eligible farmers and ranchers to address soil, water, and related natural resource concerns on their lands in an environmentally beneficial and cost-effective manner. The program provides assistance to farmers and ranchers in complying with Federal, State, and tribal environmental laws, and encourages environmental enhancement. The program is funded through the Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC).  CRP is administered by the Farm Service Agency, with NRCS providing technical land eligibility determinations, Environmental Benefit Index Scoring, and conservation planning.

The Conservation Reserve Program reduces soil erosion, protects the Nation's ability to produce food and fiber, reduces sedimentation in streams and lakes, improves water quality, establishes wildlife habitat, and enhances forest and wetland resources. It encourages farmers to convert highly erodible cropland or other environmentally sensitive acreage to vegetative cover, such as tame or native grasses, wildlife plantings, trees, filterstrips, or riparian buffers. Farmers receive an annual rental payment for the term of the multi-year contract. Cost sharing is provided to establish the vegetative cover practices.

-Farm Service Agency's Conservation Reserve Program

This is a picture of a CRP Field.  An entire field is seeded down to a grass mixture and the farmer receives payments for the idle ground for 10 years.

This is a picture of a grass filter strip approximately 30 Ft. wide.  A grass filter strip is a strip of grass seeded along the edge of a ditch, creek, or river to filter the water as it enters the stream.  The farmer also gets CRP payments for 10 years on the acres they take out of production from the filter strip.

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