Posts Tagged: CSP

Minnesota Farmers: CSP is on for 2013

Posted March 29th, 2013 by Brian DeVore, Land Stewardship Project & filed under agriculture, Food and Sustainable Agriculture, Land Conservation, Loon Commons blog.

By Adam Warthesen, Land Stewardship Project One of the nation’s most innovative working lands farm conservation initiatives has received a financial reprieve, thanks to the continuing resolution signed by President… Read more »

Let’s Stop Treating Soil Conservation Like Dirt

Posted April 15th, 2011 by Brian DeVore, Land Stewardship Project & filed under Food and Sustainable Agriculture.

Here’s the bad news: it turns out the USDA’s estimates that soil erosion rates are under control across the Corn Belt—something we reported in this blog last June—are probably overly… Read more »

Ag Conservation’s Unfair Burden

Posted March 4th, 2011 by Brian DeVore, Land Stewardship Project & filed under Food and Sustainable Agriculture.

At a time when the budget mantra “we must all share in the pain” is being repeated ad nauseam, it doesn’t take much searching to find some hypocritical exceptions. Take,… Read more »

CSP: Working out the Warts

Posted May 14th, 2010 by Brian DeVore, Land Stewardship Project & filed under Food and Sustainable Agriculture.

The USDA announced this week that farmers have until June 11 to fill out an application for the latest round of Conservation Stewardship Program contracts. That’s a narrow window of… Read more »