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Environmental programmes: Natural Resource Conservation Service (NRCS): Agricultural Management Assistance Program - Provides cost-share assistance for conservation practices that improve water management, water quality, and erosion control. (...)

Environmental programmes: Natural Resource Conservation Service (NRCS): Conservation Stewardship Program - Provides payments for structural and land management practices that address resource concerns. (...)

Environmental programmes: Natural Resource Conservation Service (NRCS): Grassland Reserve Program - Long-term contracts or easements to restore and conserve grassland. (...)

Environmental programmes: Natural Resource Conservation Service (NRCS): Agricultural Conservation Easements Program (ACEP) - Combines the functions of the former Wetlands Reserve Program, the Grassland Reserve Program (easement portion), and the Farm and Ranch Lands Protection Program. The program provides financial and technical assistance to help conserve agricultural lands and wetlands and their related benefits. (...)

Environmental programmes: Natural Resource Conservation Service (NRCS): Regional Conservation Partnerships Program (RCPP) - Combines the authorities of four former conservation programs—the Agricultural Water Enhancement program, the Chesapeake Bay Watershed Program, the Cooperative Conservation Partnership Initiative, and the Great Lakes Basin Program. Promotes coordination between NRCS and its partners to deliver conservation assistance to producers and landowners on a regional or watershed scale. NRCS provides assistance to producers through partnership agreements and through program farmer cooperatives, water districts, municipal waste or wastewater treatments entities, higher education institutions, and organizations with a history of working cooperatively with producers, including nonprofit organizations.(...)

Environmental programmes: Farm Service Agency (FSA): Organic Certification Cost-Share Program (OCCSP) - Assists certified organic operations in defraying the costs associated with organic certification. Organic operations may receive up to 75% of their certification costs up to a maximum of USD 750 annually per certification scope.

Environmental programmes: Natural Resource Conservation Service (NRCS): Farm and Ranchland Protection Program - Conservation plans are made and easements purchased through State, tribe, or local government agencies to protect topsoil by limiting conversion to nonagricultural uses. Conservation plans must be carried out over the 30 years or more of the easement term. (...)

Environmental programmes: Natural Resource Conservation Service (NRCS): Wetland Reserve Program - Conservation and restoration of wetlands through long-term agreements. Producers must implement a conservation plan and retire crop acreage base. (...)

Environmental programmes: Farm Service Agency (FSA): Conservation Reserve Program - Soil erosion reduction and other environmental benefits are addressed through 10-year rental agreements to establish permanent cover crops on cropland.

Environmental programmes: Natural Resource Conservation Service (NRCS): Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP) - Encourages farmers and ranchers to adopt practices that reduce environmental and resource problems. Half of the funds are targeted to livestock production practices. (...)