Conservation program renewal deadline set for March 31

COLFAX — Ag producers participating in the Conservation Stewardship Program (CSP) may renew their existing contract before the March 31 deadline.

The CSP, a program of the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS), aims to improve the business of private landowners while using conservation practices to help with the sustainability of their whole operations.

Ag producers and forest landowners receive payments through the program in exchange for maintaining, managing and expanding conservation activities such as buffer strips, cover crops, ecologically-based pest management and benefici...