Before the 2020 legislative session ends May 18, tell your state senator to support passage of an Environmental Trust Fund bill and the Conservation Reserve Enhancement Program in the state bonding bill.
ST. PAUL, Minn. — Minnesota officials are working to sign up more landowners under a new program that pays farmers to permanently set aside farmland for conservation to improve water quality. The federal Conservation Reserve
Tim Spielman and Rob Drieslein discuss future of Conservation Reserve Enhancement Program. Tim Lesmeister and Rob Drieslein debate DNR’s deer management goal, new northern pike regulations, and Trump action on Bears Ear National Monument. Joe
USDA will continue to accept eligible offers for state-specific Conservation Reserve Enhancement Program (CREP) and CRP Grasslands enrollment.
Signed bills include license fee hikes, allowance for scopes on muzzleloaders, and other fishing- and hunting-related provisions.
Signers include DU and PF: “Minnesotans want clean water and a thriving outdoors, and they have voted to pay for it.”
Over a 10-year period, approximately $19 million in federal funds from the Farm Service Agency will be used to provide annual rental, incentive and cost-share payments for filter strips, riparian buffers, or pollinator and honeybee
Indications are that program’s results will more likely mirror the first program that kicked off in the late 1990s
About $150 million in state funding will match with about $350 million from USDA to protect through conservation easements an estimated 60,000 acres
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