The Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) Grasslands is part of the CRP program, a federally funded voluntary program that contracts with agricultural producers so that environmentally sensitive agricultural land is not farmed or ranched, but instead used for conservation benefits. The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) provides participants with rental payments and cost-share assistance. Contract duration is between 14 and 15 years. CRP Grasslands helps landowners and operators protect grassland, including rangeland, and pastureland, and certain other lands, while maintaining the areas as grazing lands. The program emphasizes support for grazing operations, plant and animal biodiversity, and grassland and land containing shrubs and forbs under the greatest threat of conversion. CRP Grasslands is authorized by the 2014 Farm Bill. The USDA Farm Service Agency (FSA) administers the program on behalf of the USDA Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC).

In the News!

• Accepting Signup 200 Offers for the Third Ranking Period (January 2017) **NEW**
• USDA Expands Grasslands Conservation Program to Small-Scale Livestock Producers (January 2017) **NEW**
• CRP 3rd Ranking Grasslands ‐ State Offered and Acceptable Acres (January 2017) **NEW**
• USDA Partners with Farmers and Ranchers to Protect More Than 500,000 Acres of Working Grasslands (November 2016) 
  
• Accepting Signup 200 Offers for the Second Ranking Period (November 2016)
  
• CRP 2nd Ranking Grasslands ‐ State Offered and Acceptable Acres (December 2016)
  
• USDA Expands Working-Lands Conservation Opportunities through CRP (November 2016)
• Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) - Grasslands Fact Sheet, (November 2016)
• Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) - Grasslands  Fact Sheet, (September 2015)