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Help Available to Arizona Farmers, Ranchers to Use Renewable Energy, Save
Fuel
Updated 9/9/2009
Agricultural and forestry producers who want to improve their land’s natural
resources can apply for help from the Conservation Stewardship Program (CSP).
Sept. 30 is the first application deadline for CSP, although applications are
accepted on a continuous basis.
Reducing fuel use, using solar power and other renewable energy, and other
energy saving items are part of the energy saving aspect of CSP. Agricultural
and forestry producers could receive money to do the following to reduce energy
consumption:
Energy Enhancements:
Eligible applicants include operators of private agricultural land, private
forest land, and Indian tribes. CSP is a national program, but each state has
the flexibility to determine its own resource concerns. In Arizona, priority
will be given in the following areas:
Agricultural Land: Air Quality, Animals, Energy, Plants, and Water Quantity
Forestry: Animals, Plants, Soil Erosion
Two types of payments are possible through CSP. An annual payment for installing
and adopting additional activities, and improving, maintaining, and managing
existing activities is one type of payment, and a supplemental payment for the
adoption of resource-conserving crop rotations is another possibility.
The estimated range for annual payments is:
• Cropland - $12 to $22 per acre
• Nonindustrial Private Forestland - $6 to $12 per acre
• Pastureland - $7 to $14 per acre
• Rangeland - $5 to $10 per acre
The estimated range for supplemental payments includes a resource-conservation
crop rotation at $12 to $16 per acre.
CSP was authorized in the 2008 Farm Bill and is administered by the USDA’s
Natural Resources Conservation Service. Visit the Web at
www.az.nrcs.usda.gov contact to
contact your local NRCS office, or call 602-280-8842 for more information.
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