As this blog has made clear in the past, the 2008 Farm Bill is far from perfect. But buried in the status-quo quagmire are a few gems like the newly revamped Conservation Stewardship Program (CSP).

The USDA will be accepting the next round of CSP applications in early 2009, which isn’t as far off as you think. So now is the time to figure out how your farm can qualify for a program that rewards true land stewardship. Check out LSP’s latest CSP fact sheet for details on how to enroll. Let’s show Washington that there’s a committed constituency for truly progressive public policy like CSP.

This entry was posted on Friday, November 21st, 2008 at 6:54 pm by Brian DeVore and is filed under Food and Sustainable Agriculture. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.