Program Sign Up for the Alliance to Advance Climate-Smart Agriculture
Friday, March 8, 2024 · 9 am–noon
VSU Randolph Farm Pavilion, 4415 River Road, Petersburg, VA
New Funding Opportunity
The Alliance to Advance Climate-Smart Agriculture is a pilot program that will incentivize farmers and ranchers to adopt climate-smart agriculture practices to maintain and improve agricultural productivity, benefit producers, and improve climate resilience. Under the three-year pilot program, the Alliance and its partners will help producers in Virginia prove the value of paying farmers and ranchers $100 per acre or animal unit for stewardship practices that deliver public value through carbon sequestration, greenhouse gas reduction, improved soil health, water quality, water conservation, and other environmental services. Virginia Tech will issue direct payments. Farms must be located within an eligible county in the Year One Project Map. There is a two (2) acre minimum, and farms must have a verified Farm Service Agency (FSA) Number. The land can not be enrolled in another state or federal conservation program in the same practice on the same acres. To see the coverage area, please visit https://www.allianceforcsa.org/partners/virginia.
For more information, contact Alston Hilliard at 804-731-5175 or email ahilliard@vsu.edu.
If you are a person with a disability and desire any assistive devices, services or other accommodations to participate in this activity, please contact the Small Farm Outreach Program office at smallfarm@vsu.edu or call (804) 524-3292 / TDD (800) 828-1120 during business hours of 8 am. and 5 p.m. to discuss accommodations five days prior to the event.
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