Jim Prusa has taken advantage of several facets offered by the CRP. He has devoted whole fields to CRP Permanent Introduced Grasses and Legumes. In strategic areas, he installed Riparian Buffers and Filter Strips using the CRP Continuous enrollment option. In still other areas, Jim enrolled acreage in the recently negotiated Nebraska CREP.

"When we planted Filter Strips on our farm, we had a big impact on erosion," said Jim. "Before the grass was planted, we were running a lot of soil into our ponds and the creek. Now we've almost completely stopped any erosion problems."

Jim used the CREP program to take some of the small fields along the creek out of production. "They were really kind of hard to farm and out of the way," noted Jim. "By planting those fields to grass, I know we've reduced soil erosion into the creek as well."

Declares Jim, "CRP is just a 'good deal' for farmers in this area." Implemented by conservation-minded agricultural producers like Jim Prusa, CRP is proving to be a good deal for Nebraska's soil, water, and wildlife, too.

Jim Prusa prepares to interseed legumes into his existing CRP permanent grass planting cover. The interseeding will create a diverse cover favorable to wildlife.