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How to Apply for the Conservation Stewardship Program (CSP)

The Conservation Stewardship Program (CSP) is available through a continuous sign-up that began on August 10, 2009.  Applications submitted by September 30, 2009 will be considered for funding in the first ranking period.

Potential CSP applicants are encouraged to us a self-screening checklist to determine if the new Conservation Stewardship Program is suitable for them or their operation.

The following documents require Adobe Acrobat Reader.

   2009 Conservation Stewardship Self-Screening Checklist  (PDF, 98KB)

Applicants must:

  • Be the operator of record in the USDA farm records management system for the eligible land being offered for enrollment.  The applicant's entire operation must be enrolled and must include all eligible land that will be under the applicant's control for the term of the proposed contract that is operated substantially separate from other operations.

  • Have documented control of the land for the term of the proposed five (5) year contract period.

  • Include the eligible land in their entire operation as represented for other USDA programs.

  • Be in compliance with the the highly erodible land

CSP offers participants two possible types of payments:

  1. Annual payments for installing and adopting additional activities, and improving, maintaining, and managing existing activities.

  2. Supplemental payment for the adoption of resource-conserving crop rotations.

Payments will be limited to $40,000 annually per year during the five-year contract with a maximum total payment of $200,000 over the life of the contract.

 

Missouri 2009 Enhancement Activity Job Sheets

 

Missouri Conservation Stewardship Program Geographic Regions

 

Missouri has established seven (7) geographic regions to rank applications with similar resource concerns.  For region boundaries, and priority resource concerns see the "Missouri CSP Geographic Regions Information" link above.

 

Additional Information

The following documents require Adobe Acrobat Reader.

MO CSP Overview  (PDF, 30 KB)

MO Public Meeting Presentation  (PDF, 247 KB)
  
NRCS-CPA-1200 with appendix  (PDF, 98 KB)

Payment Range Estimate  (PDF, 248 KB)

Resource Conserving Crops   (PDF, 14KB)

 

Missouri CSP Contact Information

 

National NRCS CSP Information

 

 

Last modified: 10/02/2009

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