No matter if you grow crops or raise livestock, or you manage timber or want to improve your private land, NRCS has options for you that are good for your land and its natural resources.
NRCS offers technical and financial assistance to help integrate conservation practices into croplands, grazing lands, forests, urban farms and other land uses. The Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP) and Conservation Stewardship Program (CSP) offer 170-plus conservation activities that help a wide variety of operations. To learn more about these activities, watch our Conservation at Work video series.
Meanwhile, NRCS can also help producers protect sensitive landscapes and prime farmlands through easements, which are funded through the Agricultural Conservation Easement Program (ACEP).
Examples of Easements
Grassland Easement
Wetland Reserve Easements
National Resource Inventory
A statistical survey of land use and natural resource conditions and trends on U.S. non-Federal lands.