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In Kansas, Emergency Haying, Grazing of Conservation Reserve Program Acres Available to Help Livestock Producers Weather Drought
Tue, 24 Aug 2021 12:05:33 CDT
Kansas agricultural producers impacted by drought can now request haying and grazing on Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) acres in certain Kansas counties, while still receiving their full rental payment for the land.
"Drought is heavily impacting livestock producers in Kansas and across the country, and emergency haying or grazing of lands enrolled in CRP is one more drought mitigation tool to help producers," Zach Ducheneaux, Administrator of USDA's Farm Service Agency (FSA), said. "While CRP makes annual rental payments for land in conservation, under certain circumstances, FSA can allow the haying and grazing of these lands to mitigate the impacts of natural disasters without a reduction in payments. As part of our climate-smart agriculture efforts, we are working with all stakeholder groups to ensure that supplemental benefits of CRP acres, like emergency haying and grazing, can be accessed in a manner that is more universally beneficial."
Counties are approved for emergency haying and grazing due to drought conditions on a county-by-county basis when a county is designated as level "D2 Drought - Severe" according to the U.S. Drought Monitor.
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