ENROLL NOW!

Minnesota has only 23,100 acres available

Please contact our office at (320) 968-5300 Ext. 3 to get more information about this program or to see if your land may be eligible.

Sign-up begins Monday April 14, 2008.
Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) - SAFE

The CRP SAFE (Conservation Reserve Program - State Areas for Wildlife Enhancement) program is available for landowners to voluntarily enroll cropland to restore grassland habitats that will improve pheasants and other wildlife populations through the planting of critical nesting habitat within the pheasant and greater prairie chicken range of Minnesota. This range includes all of Benton County.
Why Enroll?

- Provides recreational opportunities,
  such as bird watching and hunting
- Improves water quality
- Provides quality wildlife habitat
- Erosion control
- Help restore Minnesota's native
  prairies
- Square up oddly shaped and hard to
  farm fields
- Landowners retain all access and
  hunting rights
  

What is Eligible?

- Cropland that meets cropping history
  requirements
- Irrigated field corners
- 10 to 40 acre blocks of cropland
- <10 acre fields eligible if adjacent to
  existing habitat
- Expired CRP
- Food plots are an eligible practice (2
  acre maximum)

Payments:

- Benton County annual rental
  payments $38 to $62 per acre
- Signing bonus of $100 per acre
- 50% cost-share plus a 40% practice
  incentive payment