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The conservation compliance section of the Food Security Act of 1985 is going to have a big impact on Virginia farmers, the Virginia Extension Service has reported.
This section regulates the use of highly erodible land that was cropped at least one year between 1981-1985. The goal of the program is to reduce soil erosion to the tolerance level.
According to the Extension Service, this means that much of the land that Virginia producers have farmed using conventional tillage cannot be cropped that way in the future without losing most U.S. Department of Agriculture program benefits.
These benefits include deficiency and diversion payments, price support loans, disaster payments, federal crop insurance, loans made by Farmers Home Administration and annual Conservation Reserve payments.
Complying farmers must have an approved conservation plan by the end of 1989. The farmers must have fully implemented the plan by the end of 1994.
The program is voluntary. If producers, however, fail to comply, they’ll lose most program benefits, the spokesman warned.
The Soil Conservation Service,
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