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Sustainability

Conservation Reserve Enhancement Program (CREP)

CREP pays landowners to install filter strips along waterways or to return continually flooded fields to wetlands while leaving the remainder of the adjacent land in agricultural production.
CREP financial incentives include:
• Cost sharing of conservation practice installation
• Upfront incentive payments
• Annual soil rental payments

Eligibility

Applicants must be landowners in a CREP-eligible area, with land within 150 feet of a waterbody, with a cropping history in 4 of the last 6 years.

Top Benefits

  • Provide financial assistance to landowner, improve water quality, and maintain land in agriculture
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Contact

Brian Loeffelholz

608-224-4632

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