Located on Alaska's Kodiak Island, the Coplee International Corporation Ranch is home to cattle and horses as well as the island's world famous Kodiak Brown Bears. The ranch is also home to salmon that make up a large portion of the Kodiak bears' diet....
Farming in the last frontier took on a new meaning from 1978-1982. The flurry to produce crops led to clearing 75,200 acres of spruce in Alaska's Delta farming area. Most of the soil here in the east central part of the state is highly erodible. Farms were losing excessive topsoil through wind erosion. But they have reversed the trend by enrolling 28,000 acres in 58 CRP contracts....
Bison are a staple in Stevens Village. And CRP payments help to support the staple. In 2004, this Alaskan Native Village purchased a farm through FSA's Indian Tribal Land Acquisition Program. Thanks to an existing CRP contract elsewhere on the farm, the village can pay operating expenses while they establish the herd. And CRP's managed haying and grazing option can be used to supplement...
