{"id":825,"date":"2015-02-02T13:30:51","date_gmt":"2015-02-02T17:30:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/farmvia\/?p=825"},"modified":"2015-02-02T13:30:52","modified_gmt":"2015-02-02T17:30:52","slug":"conservation-stewardship-grants-at-nrcs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/farmvia\/?p=825","title":{"rendered":"Conservation Stewardship Grants at NRCS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Farmers can apply for funding to advance\u00a0 their conservation investments. Click this link to see the full press release: <span style=\"color: #0000ff\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/farmvia\/files\/2015\/02\/CSPSignUP_Jan2015.pdf\">CSPSignUP_Jan2015\u00a0 <\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201cCSP is a way of incentivizing farmers, ranchers, and private forest managers who maintain a high level of conservation on their land and agree to adopt higher levels of stewardship,\u201d said Vicky Drew, Vermont State Conservationist for USDA\u2019s Natural Resources Conservation Service. \u201cBy focusing on multiple resource concerns, landowners are able to achieve a sustainable landscape and maintain or increase the productivity of their operations.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Through CSP, participants take additional conservation steps to improve the resource conditions on their land, including soil, air and habitat quality, water quality and quantity, and energy conservation.<\/p>\n<p>Click here to view the full press release: <span style=\"color: #0000ff\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/farmvia\/files\/2015\/02\/CSPSignUP_Jan2015.pdf\">CSPSignUP_Jan2015<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Farmers can apply for funding to advance\u00a0 their conservation investments. Click this link to see the full press release: CSPSignUP_Jan2015\u00a0 \u201cCSP is a way of incentivizing farmers, ranchers, and private forest managers who maintain a high level of conservation on &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/farmvia\/?p=825\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1598,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[38206,52813],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conservation","category-farm-finances"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/farmvia\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/825","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/farmvia\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/farmvia\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/farmvia\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1598"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/farmvia\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=825"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/farmvia\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/825\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":833,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/farmvia\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/825\/revisions\/833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/farmvia\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/farmvia\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/farmvia\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}