July 23 General Sign Up Deadline for USDA’s Conservation Reserve Program

The Mahoning County Soil & Water Conservation District staff is reminding landowners that Friday, July 23, is the deadline to sign up for payments under the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Conservation Reserve Program (general signup). 

The program pays landowners who agree to remove environmentally sensitive land from agriculture production and plant species that improve environmental health and quality. More information is available on the program website.

Here are some other key dates and deadlines for programs supported by the district staff: 

July 15 – Deadline to submit yields for crops enrolled in the Agricultural Risk Coverage – Individual (ARC-IC) in 2020.

July 15 – Final certification date to report burley tobacco, cabbage planted through May 31, and corn, grain sorghum, hybrid corn seed, spring oats, potatoes, popcorn, sugar beets, tomatoes and other crops. Also final date for reporting perennial forage crops and Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) acreage.

July 15 – End of primary nesting season for CRP program purposes.

July 23 – Last day to enroll in the Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) general signup.

Aug. 2 – Last day to submit nominations for the 2021 Farm Service Agency (FSA) County Committee Elections to FSA.

Aug. 2 – Deadline to request a farm reconstitution or farm transfer for 2021.

Aug. 6 – Last day to enroll in the Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) continuous and CLEAR30.

Aug. 20 – Last day to enroll in the Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) grasslands signup.

Aug. 31 – Deadline to obtain 2021 Noninsured Crop Disaster Assistance Program (NAP) coverage for aquaculture, Christmas trees, floriculture, ginseng, mushrooms, turf grass sod and watercress.