Programs & Initiatives

The Conservation Stewardship Program helps agricultural producers maintain and improve their existing conservation systems and adopt additional conservation activities to address priority resource concerns. CSP provides two types of payments through five-year contracts: annual payments for installing new conservation activities and maintaining existing practices: and supplemental payments for adopting a resource-conserving crop rotation.

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CRP is administered by the Farm Service Agency, with NRCS providing the technical land eligibility determinations, conservation planning, and practice implementation. It encourages farmers to convert highly erodible cropland or other environmentally sensitive acreage to vegetative cover, such as tame or native grass, wildlife plantings, trees, filter strips, or riparian buffers. Landowners receive an annual rental payment for the term of the multi-year contract. Cost share is provided to establish the vegetative cover practices.

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EQIP is a program that provides financial cost-share and technical assistance to agricultural producers to plan and implement conservation practices that improve soil, water, plant, animal, air, and related natural resources on agricultural land and non-industrial private forestland.

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The ARCF provides cost-share assistance to TN landowners to install Best Management Practices (BMPs) that reduce agricultural water pollution. This assistance is facilitated through the Soil & Water Conservation District.

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