On November 18, 2022, from 12 noon – 1:00 ET, the Penn State Center for Agricultural and Shale Law, alongside the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture’s Agricultural Business Development Center will present the next webinar in our new educational series, “Understanding Agricultural Law.” This session in our series is entitled, “Understanding the Basics of Federal & State Conservation Programs.”

This session will summarize the history, progression, and current implementation of the leading federal and state soil conservation programs, which greatly impact water quality, and the entities that administer them, including USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS), Farm Service Agency (FSA), Pennsylvania’s State Conservation Commission (SCC), and SCC’s county Conservation Districts. The recent Inflation Reduction Act appropriated more than $20 billion for conservation programs, signaling the importance of soil conservation and anticipated water quality improvement to agricultural policy and law nationwide, only to increase in the coming years. Learn or refamiliarize yourself with the details of these programs—which primarily work through voluntary participation—and how they impact the operations and planning of agricultural and rural landowners.

00:01 Introduction with Audry Thompson
04:50 Overview with Ross Pifer
05:33 Environmental Regulation
08:20 USDA Payments to Ag Producers
10:09 Green Payments
12:31 USDA Conservation Programs
15:06 History of Conservation Programs
18:28 Conservation Compliance
20:03 Types of Conservation Programs
21:14 Conservation Reserve Programs
24:50 Environmental Quality Incentive Program
26:10 Conservation Stewardship Program
28:30 Participation in USDA Conservation Programs
30:56 State Conservation Programs with Brook Duer
38:01 Resource Enhancement and Protection
39:45 REAP Program Participation
41:17 REAP General Eligibility
42:34 REAP: Amount of Tax Credits
43:49 Latest Update on REAP
45:18 State Conservation Commission
51:34 County Conservation Districts
52:00 PA's Unique Conservation Predicament
53:35 FY 2022-23 State Budget Funding
55:44 PA Agricultural Conservation Assistance Program
58:01 New Federal Conservation Funding

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