Michigan CREP Process Overview
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Who: Conservation District, FSA, NRCS, & Partners
What: Meetings, Fliers, Brochures, Mailings, & Farm Visits.
Eligibility
Who: FSA
What: establishes, farm records, determines eligibility, initiates offer.
Site Visit
Who: NRCS or TSP
What: Based on site visit, resource concern is identified & implementation of CP is feasible & needed. Existing cover is addressing the purpose of CP.
Participant Notification
Who: FSA
What: Notice to Producer of accepted/ rejected/ modified offer.
File, Compiled, & Sign
Who: Participant & FSA
What: Participant accepts offer & signs CRP-1/CRP-2C.
Conservation Planning Begins
Who: NRCS or TSP
What: Conservation Plan, supporting documents: 1155s, Maps, CPA-52, Job Sheets, etc.
Conservation Plan Review
Who: NRCS
What: Conservation Plan & 1155 (estimated cost share) ready for review.
File, Compile, & Sign
Who: NRCS, FSA, and TSP
What: Producer signs Conservation Plan, & 1155. Assistance from CD for SIGMA.
Contract Approval
Who: FSA & MDARD
What: Contract approval. Participant may begin practice implementation, FSA issues SIP and MDARD issues enrollment/ re-enrollment bonus.
Practice Installation
Who: Participant
What: Submits receipts for C/S reimbursement & practice installation certification.
Michigan CREP Incentives, Payments, & Practices
Federal Incentives and Payments
- Soil Rental Rate (SRR) Payment base on 3 predominate soils
- 40% SRR Incentive
- Climate Smart Incentive – added to SRR
- Grasses & Legumes = 5% (CP1)
- Grass = 3% (CP2 & CP21)
- Woody Biomass = 10% (CP5A & CP22)
- Wetland (aquatic or emergent) = 3% (CP23 & CP23A)
- 50% cost-share for practice installation 1/
- Signing Incentive Payment (SIP) based on 32.5% of first full year annual rental payment – applicable to new enrolled acres only 1/
- Practice Incentive Payment (PIP) 10% 1/
- 50% Cost-Share for Management Activities applicable only to CP22
State Incentives and Payments
- 50% cost-share for practice installation 1/
- New Enrollment Bonus
- Enrollment Bonus $150 p/ac CP5A, CP21, CP22, CP23/23A, & CP26
- Water Quality Incentive Payment – appliable to land located in the Western Lake Erie Basin Watershed only 1/
- $50/ac CP21, CP22, CP23/23A, & CP26
- Re-Enrollment Bonus
- Re-enrollment Bonus
- $50 p/ac CP1 & CP2
- $150 p/ac CP5A, CP21, CP22, CP23/23A, & CP26
- Maintenance & Management Payment
- $100 p/ac CP1, CP2, CP5A, CP21, CP22, & CP23/23A
- $500 p/ac CP26
- Re-enrollment Bonus
CREP Practices
- CP1, Establishment of Permanent Introduced Grasses and Legumes
- CP2, Establishment of Permanent Native Grass
- CP5A, Field Windbreak
- CP21, Filter Strips
- CP22, Riparian Buffer
- CP23/23A, Wetland Restorations
- CP26, Sediment Control Structure
1/ Reenrolled land is not eligible to receive these incentives
Acronym Key
- CP= Conservation Practice
- CD=Conservation District
- SIGMA= State of Michigan Vendor Self Service Registration for EFT.
