Easements

    • Agricultural Conservation Easement Program - The Agricultural Conservation Easement Program (ACEP) helps landowners, land trusts, and other entities protect, restore, and enhance wetlands or protect working farms and ranches through conservation easements.

 

Programs

    • Agricultural Management Assistance - The Agricultural Management Assistance (AMA) helps agricultural producers manage financial risk through diversification, marketing or natural resource conservation practices.
    • Conservation Reserve Program - The Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) provides a yearly rental payment to farmers who remove environmentally sensitive land from agricultural production and plant species that will improve environmental health and quality.
    • Environmental Quality Incentives Program - The Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP) is NRCS's flagship conservation program that helps farmers, ranchers, and forest landowners integrate conservation into working lands.
    • Regional Conservation Partnership Program - The Regional Conservation Partnership Program (RCPP) is a partner-driven approach to conservation that funds solutions to natural resource challenges on agricultural land.