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Sign-up for
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The eighth Conservation Reserve Program sign-up began Feb. 6 land rups through Feb. 24, according {to Linda Henry, executive director j (of the Rappahannock County Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service.
The Conservation Reserve Program offers farmers the opportunity to bid to rent their highly erodible cropland to the government for 10 years in return for an annual rental payment. The cropland must be established in permanent vegetative cover or trees. The program also offers 50 percent cost share in establishing the cover or planting trees.
Previously, only highly erodible cropland cropped in two out of three of the years between 1981 and 1985 was eligible. For this sign-up there are new provisions that allow land to be eligible without meeting this requirement if the field or area has evidence of scour erosion caused by outof-bank flows of water or wetland areas, as determined by the Soil (Conservation Service.
Cropland may be offered for CRP if either the eligible field or area floods at least once every 10 years and has suffered crop damage as a result, or is an eligible wetland area. • - Ms. Henry also pointed out that mew regulations for this sign-up include a special Virginia supplement to the Conservation Reserve Program which is applicable to Rappahannock County. The state program -will pay, in addition to ASCS payments on accepted bids, a one-time payment of $50 per acre for grass vegetation or $100 per acre for trees Under the filter strip option of CRP.
Applications for this option are also available at the Rappahannock County ASCS Office. For more infbrmation about CRP or any ASCS programs call the county office (6753616).
Lt. Dixon
graduated
Marine 2nd Lt. Jeffrey B. Dixon, whose wife Dawn, is the daughter of Diane L. Pendleton of Sperryville, was commissioned upon his graduation from Officer Candidate School, i.’ During the 10-week course conducted at the Marine Corps Combat Development Command, Quantico, Va., Lt. Dixon was trained for commissioning as Marine Corps officer by receiving instruction in leadtitohip and basic military subjects that emphasized esprit de corps and * self-discipline. He also participated ia a demanding physical conditioning program. . • A 1984 graduate of Clarke County High School, Berryville, and & 1988 graduate of Virginia Military Institute, Lexington, with a bachelor of science degree, he joined the Marine Corps in May 1988.
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