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Farm Service Agency Announces Accepted CRP Contracts
06/17/2011 10:10 AM EDT
U.S. Department of Agriculture, Texas Farm Service Agency
PO Box 2900
College Station, Texas - 77841
http://www.fsa.usda.gov/tx
Farm Service Agency Announces Accepted CRP Contracts
(COLLEGE STATION, TX) - June 17, 2011 - Juan M. Garcia, Executive Director for the USDA Texas Farm Service Agency (FSA), announced that contracts for the Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) for fiscal year (FY) 2012 have been awarded. In Texas, 597,082 acres have been accepted under the most recent signup bringing total CRP acres in Texas to 3,376,017.
During the 41st general CRP signup conducted in the spring, more than 38,000 CRP offers were received on approximately 3.8 million acres nationwide. USDA accepted enrollment of 2.8 million acres bringing the total program enrollment to 29.9 million acres.
"These newly accepted CRP contracts perpetuate the past quarter century of program success by providing a low risk opportunity to implement a variety of conservation practices on environmentally sensitive land right here in Texas," said Garcia. "CRP practices improve water and air quality, increase wildlife habitat and prevent soil erosion," he said.
How successful is CRP? According to Garcia, since its inception 25 years ago, CRP acres have resulted in an eight billion ton reduction in soil erosion, restoration of two million acres of wetlands and adjacent buffers, vegetative protection of more than 200,000 stream bank buffers and significant increases in upland wildlife numbers which translates to recreational dollars for many rural economies.
Landowners enrolled in CRP receive annual rental payments and cost-share assistance to establish long-term, resource conserving covers on eligible farmland. Accepted contracts are effective October 1, 2011.
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