Working for Profitable Farms That Protect the Environment

Traditionally, conservation programs have paid cost-share payments to farmers to clean up environmental problems, or rental payments to retire sensitive cropland. The Conservation Security Program, CSP, pays farmers who are already doing a good job of protecting resources on their working lands. It rewards those who are farming clean and green with annual payments and increasing financial incentives that will help keep them farming in a way that benefits soil, water, and air resources.

The Minnesota Project strongly supports full funding and nationwide implementation of the Conservation Security Program as our nation’s first green payments agriculture conservation program. We believe that federal agriculture support should benefit all Americans by assisting farmers to protect our natural resources so that all Americans can enjoy a clean environment and future generations of family farms will inherit healthy, productive working lands.

What's New

• The Conservation Planner, June 2007, 601kb pdf

• Testimony of Loni Kemp before the House Agriculture Subcommittee on Conservation, Credit, Energy, and Research. April 19, 2007, 39kb pdf

• Conservation Security Program Drives Resource Management, An Assessment of CSP Implementation in Five Midwestern States,
  The Minnesota Project, April 2007, 772kb pdf

• Promoting Sustainable Cellulosic Bioenergy Crops With the Conservation Security Program, Loni Kemp, Environment and Energy Study Institute Briefing, Washington D.C., March 8, 2007, 36kb pdf
  

• CSP Drives New Conservation on Working Lands, 30kb pdf
  

• Sustainable Agriculture and Cellulosic Energy: Opportunities for Perennial Cropping Systems, Mike McGrath, Roots to Reform meetings, Washington D.C., March 6-7, 2007, 2.4mb pdf

• Testimony of Loni Kemp before the Senate Agriculture Committee, January 10, 2007 33kb pdf