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If you have a CRP contract in which your contract is expiring, and you do not plan to re-enroll your land into, there is a website that may give you some ideas as to how best to convert the land back into cropland.  It also gives alternatives for land use and care.

http://www.nd.nrcs.usda.gov/programs/CRP/crp_index.html

As a partner with the Grand Forks Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS)  Field Office, the Soil Conservation District works to promote USDA programs that will be a benefit to agricultural producers and conservation.  Here are a few of the programs:

Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP)

:http://www.nd.nrcs.usda.gov/programs/EQIP/eqip_general_description.html

Wetlands Reserve Program (WRP)

http://www.nrcs.usda.gov/programs/wrp/

Conservation Security Program (CSP)

http://www.nrcs.usda.gov/programs/csp/

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For additional information on any of the USDA programs you can visit:

the ND NRCS programs website at: http://www.nd.nrcs.usda.gov/programs/

Or the Federal NRCS programs website page at:

http://www.nrcs.usda.gov/programs/