FSA Announces Conservation-Related Help for Nebraska

FSA has approved emergency grazing of Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) acres for all Nebraska counties due to the flooding, Nebraska FSA State Executive Director Nancy Johner announced. She also announced 45 Nebraska counties have been approved to begin accepting applications for the Emergency Conservation Program (ECP) to address damages from recent flooding. The allowance for emergency grazing of CRP acres is effective immediately and runs through April 30. Producers will be required to contact their local FSA office to complete required paperwork before being able to utilize their CRP acres under the emergency action. There will be no rental reduction for those CRP contract holders to utilize their acres for emergency grazing and they are not allowed to charge livestock producers to graze the acres. ECP helps producers with the recovery cost to restore agricultural land to pre-disaster conditions, with those approved for ECP receiving up to 75% of the cost of approved restoration activity.