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Assistant ag secretary announces conservation stewardship program

RBC y Agriculture Deputy Secretary Kathleen Merrigan recently announced the U.S. Department of Agriculture will begin continuous sign-up for the new Conservation Stewardship Program (CSP) with the first signup period cutoff scheduled for Sept. 30. CSP is a voluntary program that encourages agricultural and forestry producers to maintain existing conservation activities and adopt additional ones on their operations.
“This program will help the nation’s agricultural and forestry producers reach greater levels of conservation performance, which…