Here's the details. I see this as being very attractive to any landowner in that area that is not interested in commercial or their own hunting, not afraid of open lands and can produce more income on that ground than farming it.
Eligible producers interested in enrolling acreage in the South Dakota CREP must offer a minimum of 40 contiguous or nearly contiguous acres, as determined by the Farm Service Agency (FSA), which may consist of a combination of land offered for enrollment into CREP and adjacent non-CREP acres in order to meet the 40-acre minimum block-size requirement. The 40-acre minimum requirement may be waived for beginning, limited resource or socially disadvantaged farmers or ranchers. The acres offered for CREP must meet the specific conservation practice requirements of the Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) to be eligible under CREP. An additional requirement of the James River Watershed CREP is that producers enrolling eligible acres in CREP must also enroll the applicable acres in the South Dakota Game, Fish and Parks Walk-In Area Program for hunting and fishing access.
Producers enrolling acreage under CREP will be eligible to receive the current weighted-average rental rate for the three predominant soils on the eligible acreage. Some conservation practices will qualify for additional incentives such as a 20 percent rental rate increase, Practice Incentive Payment (PIP), and a Signing Incentive Payment (SIP) of $100 per acre. The acreage enrolled in CREP will also be eligible to receive an annual payment from the state of South Dakota equal to 40 percent of the weighted-average rental rate for acres enrolled under CREP.
