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  • Grassland CRP

    Grassland CRP helps landowners protect rangeland, pastureland, and similar areas while maintaining them as active grazing lands. Unlike other versions of CRP, this one allows for grazing, harvesting hay, and harvesting seed. It pays annual rental payments to enrolled producers.

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  • Continuous CRP

    Continuous CRP (Conservation Reserve Program) is designed for specific, high-priority conservation practices (filter strips, riparian buffers, wetland restorations) on the most environmentally sensitive land. Unlike General CRP, the signup is open year round and can be less competetive.

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  • General CRP

    The Conservation Reserve Program, most commonly known as CRP, is aimed at taking environmentally sensitive cropland out of production to establish long-term covers like grasses. Producers receive an annual rental payment. The general program uses a competetive ranking process to accept applications.

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  • Practical Farmers of Iowa (PFI) Precision Analysis

    This program will provide a free analysis of your field’s profitability to see if it makes financial sense to take unprofitable acres out of production. If you choose to take recommended acres out of production, you receive a payment for the row crop acres that remain.

    Learn More: Practical Farmers of Iowa (PFI) Precision Analysis

  • Practical Farmers of Iowa (PFI) Prairie Incentive

    The PFI Habitat Incentives program helps producers reduce erosion and nutrient loss while attracting pollinators. PFI’s program is unique because they can help you combine their habitat program with the USDA’s CRP incentives.

    Learn More: Practical Farmers of Iowa (PFI) Prairie Incentive

  • Resource Enhancement and Protection (REAP)

    REAP is a state program for Iowa’s natural resources and is funded from Iowa gaming receipts and natural resources license plates. REAP is a mostly used for windbreaks and barriers.

    Learn More: Resource Enhancement and Protection (REAP)

  • Iowa DNR Prairie Partners Program

    This program is best for smaller projects like ditches, windbreaks, or yards. It pays for half the cost of seed and you get access to a private lands biologist to help you.

    Learn More: Iowa DNR Prairie Partners Program

  • Ducks Unlimited AMP

    This is a pork producer-centric program that offers funding and technical support for cover crops, reduced tillage, buffers, and livestock integration. National Pork Board is the lead organization, but it’s not limited to only pork producers.

    Learn More: Ducks Unlimited AMP

  • EQIP/RCPP

    RCPP and EQIP are both USDA programs administered through NRCS and offer some of the highest payment rates. Often, the rates are similar, which is why we have them grouped here. However, RCPP rates can sometimes differ because RCPP is based on individual project areas within the state of Iowa.

    Learn More: EQIP/RCPP

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