Conservation Security Program

Initial Questionnaire

Vermont

 

These questions will help you determine if your land might be eligible for CSP.

Answer these questions only for land you are considering enrolling in CSP.

Forestland and farmsteads are not eligible for CSP.  However, forested land that is an incidental part of an agricultural operation is eligible.

 

1. Do you own or have control of the land you intend to enroll in CSP for the length of the proposed 5 to 10 year contract period?

Yes____ No____  N/A____ 

 

2. Do you share in the risk of producing the crop or livestock on this farm?

 

  Yes____ No____  N/A____ 

 

3. Do you take soils tests and follow the recommendations when applying nutrients/fertilizer?  

Yes____ No____  N/A____ 

 

4. Do you have records of where you apply nutrients/fertilizer?  

Yes____ No____  N/A____ 

 

5. Do you have records on how much nutrients/fertilizer you apply?  

Yes____ No____  N/A____ 

 

6. Do you have records on when you apply nutrients?  

Yes____ No____  N/A____ 

 

7. If you raise cultivated or row crops (i.e., potatoes, corn, beans, vegetables) do you follow a crop rotation so these crops are only produced half of the years and hay or small grains (i.e., oats, barley) are grown the other years?  

Yes____ No____  N/A____ 

 

8. If you apply pesticides do you have records that document the pesticide type, amount, time applied and rate?  

Yes____ No____  N/A____ 

 

9. Are your crop and pasture fields free of active gullies?

Yes____ No____  N/A____ 

 

 

If you can answer “yes” to most of these questions, you are possibly eligible for CSP.

 

If you can’t answer “yes” to most of these, there may be other conservation programs that can help you become eligible for CSP.