# Presentation: 877010

## Conservation Security Program

**Producer Self-Assessment Workshop**

## Conservation Security Program

- Self Assessment process will assist producer in determining eligibility prior to completing application at NRCS office
- Self Assessment involves answering a series of questions (Yes, No or NA) relating to the land being offered into CSP
- NA = Not Applicable

## Self Assessment Workbook

- Available in NRCS offices
- Hardcopy
- CD-ROM
- Available on-line
- _[www.ut.nrcs.usda.gov/programs/csp/index.html](http://www.ut.nrcs.usda.gov/programs/csp/index.html)_

## Self Assessment Process

- Step 1 - Determine Initial Eligibility
- Step 2 - Assess Land Use
- Step 3 - Describe Your Operation
- Step 4 - Submit Application

## Step 1 – Determine Initial Eligibility

- Initial eligibility looks at:
- Producer Eligibility (4 questions)
- Land Eligibility (4 questions)
- _Underlined word(s)_ in questions are in glossary for further explanation
- Glossary begins on page 25 of workbook

## Producer Eligibility

- 1.	Do you _share in the risk of producing crops or livestock on this operation?_
_**Definition:**_  An owner, operator, landlord, tenant, or sharecropper who materially participates and shares in the risk of producing any crop or livestock; and is entitled to share in the crop or livestock available for marketing from a farm (or would have shared had the crop or livestock been produced).

## Producer Eligibility

- Are you entitled to share in the crop or livestock available for marketing from the _agriculture operation_?
_**Definition:**_  “Agricultural land, and other lands determined by the NRCS Chief, under the control of the participant and operated with equipment, labor, accounting systems, and management that is substantially separate from any other unit.”

## Producer Eligibility

- Do you have _control of some or all of the land you manage_ for the life of the proposed 5 to 10 year contract period?
_**Definition:**_  The CSP participant does not need to own eligible land, but must demonstrate control of the land for the life of the CSP contract through ownership, lease or proof of a long-standing relationship as determined by NRCS.  If the applicant is a tenant, the applicant must provide NRCS with the written evidence or assurance of control from the landowner.

## Producer Eligibility

- Is your _average adjusted gross income_ less than or equal to $2.5 million, or if greater than $2.5 million, did 75% come from farming, ranching or forestry?
_**Definition:**_  3-year average of the adjusted gross income or comparable measure of the individual or entity over 3 preceding tax years (3 years before the year for which benefits are requested)

## Land Eligibility

- Is at least part of your land _private agricultural land_ or Tribal land?
_**Definition:**_  Land must be private agricultural land (including cropland, grassland, prairie land, improved pasture land and rangeland), land under jurisdiction of an Indian tribe or forested land that is an incidental part of an agricultural operation.

## Land Eligibility

- Is your land in compliance with the _highly erodible land and wetland conservation provisions of the 1985 Farm Bill_?
- Answer NA if not Highly Erodible Land (NHEL) or if not considered wetlands

## Land Eligibility

- Was your cropland _used for crop production_ or _considered cropland_ as part of a long-term rotation for 4 out of the last 6 years prior to May 13, 2002?
- Must be planted or considered planted to an agricultural commodity
- _Considered cropland_ if land is in cropland or set aside for cropland.  May be hayland that is part of a long-term rotation.

## Land Eligibility

- Is this land currently _enrolled_ in the _Conservation Reserve Program_, _Wetlands Reserve Program_ or _Grassland Reserve Program_?
- Land enrolled in CRP, WRP or GRP cannot be part of the CSP contract.  Other land in your operation may be eligible.

- End of Initial Eligibility Assessment

## Initial Eligibility Answers

- Yes
- Yes
- Yes
- Yes
- Yes
- Yes or na – In compliance OR none of this land is HEL or considered wetlands
- Yes or na – Cropland meets criteria OR land is not cropland
- No or na

- If answers vary from those shown, you may not be eligible for CSP at this time

## Step 2 – Assess Land Use

- What kind of land uses do you manage?
- Cropland (including hayland), Vineyards or Orchards
- Pastureland
- Rangeland
- Farmstead, Headquarters or Livestock Feeding and Handling Areas
- Each land use has a series of questions to determine if the land you wish to enroll in CSP meets the basic requirements

## Cropland (including Hayland), Vineyards or Orchards

- Managing Fertilizers and Nutrients
- 8 questions
- Managing Pests
- 4 questions
- Managing Crops and Soil
- 9 questions
- Managing Irrigation
- 5 questions

## Cropland (including Hayland), Vineyards or Orchards

- Do you keep _written records or documentation_ of your nutrient management activities for each field, such as yields, soil analysis, plant tissue analysis and nutrients applied – including animal waste?
- At least two years of records must be provided from two out of the last three years

- Managing Fertilizers and Nutrients

## Cropland (including Hayland), Vineyards or Orchards

- Are you managing nutrients (for example, adding supplemental nitrogen) by following a _nutrient management plan_ or schedule that budgets nutrients based on soil and crop needs, and environmental risks?
- Plan accounts for amount, source, timing and method of applying nutrients

## Cropland (including Hayland), Vineyards or Orchards

- Do you conduct _soil tests_ and/or _plant tissue tests_?
- A minimum of once every five years on fields where fertilizers or animal manures are applied
- Answer N/A if no fertilizers or manure are applied

## Cropland (including Hayland), Vineyards or Orchards

- If you have _abandoned or active water wells_ in your cropland, orchard or vineyard, have you taken adequate steps to _protect ground water_?
- Abandoned wells should be capped for future use or decommissioned
- Wells should have an anti-siphon device installed
- Nutrient and chemical setbacks should be in place (100 feet)

## Cropland (including Hayland), Vineyards or Orchards

- If you land _apply animal manure or waste_, are you following a _waste utilization plan_ that includes adequate _setbacks from surface waters_ and other _hydrologically-active areas_ (including _sinkholes, karst topography, ground water recharge areas, wetlands_ and _wellheads_)?

## Cropland (including Hayland), Vineyards or Orchards

- If cropland, vineyards or orchards are grazed, are you _managing livestock access_ to rivers, streams and other surface water?
- Are you preventing degradation of the river, stream, or other surface water through such activities as fencing, herding, watering ramps or points, managing riparian pastures separately, timing of access, or use exclusion

## Cropland (including Hayland), Vineyards or Orchards

- If cropland, vineyards or orchards are grazed, are you following a _grazing plan_ which includes the following?
- Selecting kinds of domestic animals suited to the terrain, climate and other existing grazing area conditions

## Cropland (including Hayland), Vineyards or Orchards

-  Other grazing plan criteria
- Optimizing grazing distribution through placement of watering facilities, fences or herding techniques
- Are all areas grazed evenly

## Cropland (including Hayland), Vineyards or Orchards

- Other grazing plan criteria
- Identifying periods of grazing, rest and other treatment for each management unit
- As shown by records
- Identifying and maintaining adequate cover on sensitive areas (riparian, wetland and other habitats of concern)
- Minimum of 4-6” stubble height
- Is there evidence of erosion occurring in sensitive areas due to livestock grazing?
- Plant community is intact

## Cropland (including Hayland), Vineyards or Orchards

- Other grazing plan criteria
- Not negatively impacting any cultural resource or sensitive species
- Identifying and monitoring key areas and key plants to evaluate grazing management decisions
- Be able to compare the stubble height of key plants in your fields with stubble heights listed in the Prescribed Grazing standard

## Cropland (including Hayland), Vineyards or Orchards

- If cropland, vineyards or orchards are grazed, are livestock prevented from direct access to _sinkholes_, _unprotected wells_, or other _direct conduits_ to ground water?

## Cropland (including Hayland), Vineyards or Orchards

- Do you keep _written records or documentation_ of your pesticide application and _pest control methods_ for each field?
- At least two years of records out of the last three years are required
- N/A if pesticides are not used

- Managing Pests

## Cropland (including Hayland), Vineyards or Orchards

- Are you following a _pest management_ plan or schedule that includes, as needed, insects, invasive species and weeds?
- Pest management plan may include rate, method, timing, risk assessment, integrated pest management, appropriate mitigation and recordkeeping

## Cropland (including Hayland), Vineyards or Orchards

- Are you _scouting_ for pests and using the information as a basis for applying pesticides?
- N/A if pesticides are not used

## Cropland (including Hayland), Vineyards or Orchards

- Have you assessed the _environmental risks of pesticide use_ on your cropland, vineyards or orchards, and _addressed any risks with appropriate measures_?
- Assessing risk may include analyzing soil characteristics, pesticide properties, management factors and climate
- Addressing risks may include scouting, spot treatment, biological controls and selecting reduced-risk chemicals
- See list of pesticide/soil interactions and appropriate measures

## Cropland (including Hayland), Vineyards or Orchards

- Do you grow _high residue crops_ at least 1 in 3 years in rotation, apply a mulch, use a _cover crop_ annually, and/or have _hay/pasture in rotation_?
- High residue crops can include corn, small grains, alfalfa, and or grass

- Managing Crops and Soil

## Cropland (including Hayland), Vineyards or Orchards

- Do you maintain _cover_ between the rows of your vineyards or orchards?
- This is not an issue in our watershed
- Should be answered N/A

## Cropland (including Hayland), Vineyards or Orchards

- Do you include any of the following in your crop rotation:
- _No-till, strip-till, direct seeding or mulch-till_
- Perennial sod or hay in _rotation_
- Add organic soil amendments such as manure or compost
- Grow cover and _green manure crops_ to improve the soil
- If none of the above, do your soil tests indicate an increase in organic matter?

## Cropland (including Hayland), Vineyards or Orchards

- If you are in an area of _saline or sodic soils_, do you monitor soil salinity levels?
- Must meet 50% IWM enhancement criteria

## Cropland (including Hayland), Vineyards or Orchards

- If you have saline soils, do you use one or more of these techniques to manage salinity:  managing your irrigation and drainage water, _deep tillage, crop selection, reduction in fallow_, and/or _soil amendments_ or _planting salt tolerant crops_?

## Cropland (including Hayland), Vineyards or Orchards

- Do you avoid operating equipment in your cropland, vineyards or orchards when _soils are wet_ to reduce _soil compaction_?

## Cropland (including Hayland), Vineyards or Orchards

- Is _sheet and rill erosion_ controlled?
- Sheet erosion is the removal of a uniform thin layer of soil from the land surface by rainfall and surface runoff
- Rill erosion refers to the numerous small channels formed from surface runoff
- Rusle2 is used to determine the amount of erosion occurring.  Ask an NRCS employee for assistance with the Rusle2 program.

## Cropland (including Hayland), Vineyards or Orchards

- Is _wind erosion_ controlled?
- The Wind Erosion Equation is used to determine the amount of wind erosion occurring.  Ask an NRCS employee for assistance with the wind erosion equation.

## Cropland (including Hayland), Vineyards or Orchards

- Have you _stabilized or treated ephemeral erosion_ or _classic gullies_ on your operation?
- Ephemeral erosion is formed from the concentration of surface water when rills converge.  Generally removed with tillage operations and re-formed again (Normally treated by installing terraces or mulch till practices)
- Classic gullies are well-defined, permanent drainageways that cannot be crossed by ordinary farming operations (Is there vegetation growing in the gully bottom and no active head cutting)

## Cropland (including Hayland), Vineyards or Orchards

- Do you inspect and make repairs to your irrigation system at least annually?
- Do you keep records of irrigation dates and irrigation amounts applied relative to the crop growth stage?

- Managing Irrigation

## Cropland (including Hayland), Vineyards or Orchards

- Do you adjust your irrigation management for nutrient and pesticide applications?
- By adjusting timing of irrigation or timing of nutrient or pesticide application

## Cropland (including Hayland), Vineyards or Orchards

- Do you control _irrigation induced erosion_, by using a _cover crop, perennial cover_, polyacrylamide (PAM), _residue management_ or _irrigation water management_?

## Cropland (including Hayland), Vineyards or Orchards

- Are you following an _irrigation water management_ plan?
- Must meet an irrigation index rating of 50% (Ask an NRCS employee for assistance with this)

- End of Self Assessment for Cropland

- If you answered “no” to any of the previous questions, you may not be eligible for CSP at this time.

## Pastureland 

- Managing Fertilizers and Nutrients
- 9 questions
- Managing Pests
- 4 questions
- Managing Forage and Soil
- 7 questions
- Managing Irrigation
- 4 questions

## Pastureland

- Managing Water Quality

-  Are you following a _grazing plan_ which includes the following?
- Selecting kinds of domestic animals suited to the terrain, climate and other existing grazing area conditions

## Pastureland

- Managing Water Quality

-  Other grazing plan criteria
- Optimizing grazing distribution through placement of watering facilities, fences or herding techniques
- No areas of the pasture are overused
- Using techniques such as salt block placement and shade and shelter placement to optimize grazing distribution

## Pastureland

- Other grazing plan criteria
- Identifying periods of grazing, rest and other treatment for each management unit
- As shown by records
- Identifying and maintaining adequate cover on sensitive areas (riparian, wetland and other habitats of concern)
- Minimum of 4-6” stubble height
- Is there evidence of erosion occurring in sensitive areas due to livestock grazing?
- Plant community is intact

## Pastureland

- Other grazing plan criteria
- Not negatively impacting any cultural resource or sensitive species
- Identifying and monitoring key areas and key plants to evaluate grazing management decisions
- Identify the key plants in the pasture
- Be able to compare the stubble height of key plants in your fields with stubble heights listed in the Prescribed Grazing standard

## Pastureland

- Is forage availability balanced with livestock and wildlife demands (_forage and animal balance_, including a forage production estimate, has been made, livestock numbers are identified and wildlife numbers are estimated)?
- As shown by records

## Pastureland

- Do you keep _written records or documentation_ of your pasture management activities for each field, such as grazing intensity, frequency, and duration of grazing periods, forage yields, livestock needs, soil analysis and nutrients applied, including manure?
- Records for at least two of the last three years

## Pastureland

- Are you managing livestock access to rivers, streams, and other surface water?
- Are you preventing degradation of the river, stream, or other surface water through such activities as fencing, herding, watering ramps or points, managing riparian pastures separately, timing of access, or use exclusion
- Do you conduct _soil tests_ and/or _plant tissue tests_?
- At least once every five years if nutrients are applied

## Pastureland

- Are you managing nutrients (for example, adding supplemental N) by following a _nutrient management_ plan or schedule that budgets nutrients based on soil and plant needs and environmental risk?
- As shown by records
- N/A if not applying nutrients

## Pastureland

- If you have _abandoned or active water wells_ in your pasture, have you taken adequate steps to _protect ground water_?
- Are livestock prevented from direct access to _sinkholes, unprotected wells_, or other _direct conduits_ to _ground water_ to protect water quality?

## Pastureland

- If you land apply _animal manure or waste_, are you following a _waste utilization_ plan that includes adequate _setbacks from surface waters_ and other _hydrologically-active areas (including sinkholes, karst topography, seeps, ground water recharge areas, wetlands_ and _wellheads, etc.)?_

## Pastureland

- Managing Pests
- Have you assessed the _environmental risks of pesticide use_ on your pasture and _addressed any risks with appropriate measures_?
- Assessing risk may include analyzing soil characteristics, pesticide properties, management factors and climate
- Addressing risks may include scouting, spot treatment, biological controls and selecting reduced-risk chemicals
- See list of pesticide/soil interactions and appropriate measures

## Pastureland

- Do you keep _written records or documentation_ of your pesticide application and _pest control methods_ for each grazed area – pertaining to pesticide use and insect populations?
- At least two of the last three years of records

## Pastureland

- Do you control _noxious weeds_ and undesirable brush species?
- With pesticides or other measures such as hand weeding, spot treatment, or grazing management
- When you control noxious weeds and undesirable brush species, are you following a _pest management_ plan that includes measures to protect water quality?

## Pastureland

- Do you manage grazing on pastureland to avoid _soil compaction_?
- Schedule irrigation and grazing to avoid grazing when the soil is wet
- Is _sheet and rill erosion_ controlled?
- Is _wind erosion_ controlled?

- Managing Forage and Soil

## Pastureland

- Have you treated or stabilized _classic gullies_ on your operation?
- Includes gullies at the end of the field
- If you are in an area of _saline or sodic soils_, do you monitor soil salinity levels?
- If irrigated, must meet 50% IWM enhancement criteria

## Pastureland

- Do you manage salinity through one or more of the following: _subsurface drainage_, use of _soil amendments_ or use appropriate crops (salt tolerant forage)?
- Or irrigation water management
- Do you manage pasture _access roads_ and trails to limit soil erosion?

## Pastureland

- Do you control _irrigation induced erosion_?
- Do you inspect and make repairs to your irrigation system at least annually?

- Managing Irrigation

## Pastureland

- Do you adjust your irrigation management for nutrient and pesticide applications?
- By adjusting timing of irrigation or timing of nutrient or pesticide application
- Are you following an _irrigation water management_ plan?
- Must meet an irrigation index rating of 50% (Ask an NRCS employee for assistance with this)

- Managing Irrigation

## Pastureland

- End of Pastureland Assessment

- If you answered “no” to any of the previous questions, you may not be eligible for CSP at this time.

## Rangeland

- Managing Water Quality
- 7 questions
- Managing Pests
- 4 questions
- Managing Forage and Soil
- 4 questions

## Rangeland

- Managing Water Quality

-  Are you following a _grazing plan_ which includes the following?
- Selecting kinds of domestic animals suited to the terrain, climate and other existing grazing area conditions

## Rangeland

- Managing Water Quality

-  Other grazing plan criteria
- Optimizing grazing distribution through placement of watering facilities, fences or herding techniques
- No areas of the pasture are overused
- Using techniques such as salt block placement and shade and shelter placement to optimize grazing distribution

## Rangeland

- Other grazing plan criteria
- Identifying periods of grazing, rest and other treatment for each management unit
- As shown by records
- Identifying and maintaining adequate cover on sensitive areas (riparian, wetland and other habitats of concern)
- Minimum of 4-6” stubble height
- Is there evidence of erosion occurring in sensitive areas due to livestock grazing?
- Plant community is intact

## Rangeland

- Other grazing plan criteria
- Not negatively impacting any cultural resource or sensitive species
- Ask NRCS for list of sensitive species
- Identifying and monitoring key areas and key plants to evaluate grazing management decisions
- Identify the key plants in the grazing area
- Utilization of key plants doesn’t exceed 50 to 60%
- Photographs or other records that show the range trend

## Rangeland

- Is forage availability balanced with livestock and wildlife demands (_forage and animal balance_, including a forage production estimate, has been made, livestock numbers are identified and wildlife numbers are estimated)?
- As shown by records

## Rangeland

- Do you keep _written records or documentation_ of your range management activities for each grazed area, pertaining to intensity, frequency, and duration of grazing periods, forage production, and livestock needs?
- Records should include type and number of animals, time in, time out, and stubble heights after grazing

## Rangeland

- If you have _abandoned or active water wells_ in your rangeland, have you taken adequate steps to _protect ground water_?
- Are livestock prevented from direct access to _sinkholes, unprotected wells_, or other _direct conduits_ to _ground water_ to protect water quality?

## Rangeland

- Are you _managing livestock access_ to rivers, streams and other surface water to maintain water quality?
- Are you preventing degradation of the river, stream, or other surface water through such activities as fencing, herding, watering ramps or points, managing riparian pastures separately, timing of access, or use exclusion

## Rangeland

- If you land apply _animal manure or waste_, are you following a _waste utilization_ plan that includes adequate _setbacks from surface waters_ and other _hydrologically-active areas (including sinkholes, karst topography, seeps, ground water recharge areas, wetlands_ and _wellheads, etc.)?_

## Rangeland

- Managing Pests
- Do you keep _written records or documentation_ of your pesticide application and _pest control methods_ for each grazed area, such as chemical use and invasive plant populations?
- At least two of the last three years of records

## Rangeland

- Have you assessed the _environmental risks of pesticide use_ on your pasture and _addressed any risks with appropriate measures_?
- See list of pesticide/soil interactions and appropriate measures

## Rangeland

- Do you control _noxious weeds_ and undesirable brush species?
- With grazing management, pesticides or other measures such as hand weeding, or spot treatment
- When you control noxious weeds and undesirable brush species, are you following a _pest management_ plan that includes measures to protect water quality?

## Rangeland

- Do you manage grazing on rangeland to avoid _soil compaction_?
- By minimizing the concentration of animals on small areas

- Managing Forage and Soil

## Rangeland

- Have you _stabilized or treated classic gullies_ on your operation?
- Have you installed gully plugs, ponds, spreading structures, or implemented prescribed grazing, or other practices to stabilize the gullies

- Managing Forage and Soil

## Rangeland

- Do you manage pasture _access roads_ to limit soil erosion?
- If you burn, are you following a _prescribed burning_ plan?

## Rangeland

- End of Pastureland Assessment

- If you answered “no” to any of the previous questions, you may not be eligible for CSP at this time.

## Farmstead, Headquarters or Livestock Feeding and Handling Areas

- This section is not required, except for the highest level of CSP
- Questions in this section pertain if you wish to enroll your entire operation in CSP and help to determine if other areas within your operation meet basic program requirements

## Farmstead, Headquarters or Livestock Feeding and Handling Areas

- Livestock Feeding and Handling Areas
- Wells
- Fertilizer/Pesticide Storage and Handling Areas

## Farmstead, Headquarters or Livestock Feeding and Handling Areas

- Livestock Feeding and Handling Areas
- Do you inspect for leaks in pipelines, _manure storage or transfer facilities_ and equipment?
- May include but not limited to:  lagoons, ponds, cement storage bunkers, and collection pits

## Farmstead, Headquarters or Livestock Feeding and Handling Areas

- Do you manage runoff from _manure handling and feed handling areas_?
- Manure handling areas are where manure is loaded or moved for transport or storage (i.e. feedlot, compost piles, staging areas)
- Feed handling areas are areas where foodstuffs for livestock are stored and where livestock are fed (i.e. storage areas, silage pits, feed lanes)

## Farmstead, Headquarters or Livestock Feeding and Handling Areas

- Do you control runoff from traps, lots and other _livestock concentration areas_?
- Traps/lots may include areas such as corrals, holding areas, turkey runs, and chutes
- Must be controlled up to a 25 yr, 24 hr storm
- Do you _properly dispose of livestock mortalities_?
- Through proper burial, rendering, composting, or disposal in the county land fill

## Farmstead, Headquarters or Livestock Feeding and Handling Areas

- Wells
- Is the wellhead location appropriate and protection components in place for all potential sources of contamination?
- Well is capped and protected from entry of contamination
- Surface is graded to direct runoff away from the well

## Farmstead, Headquarters or Livestock Feeding and Handling Areas

- Is your well cased?
- Does the _well casing_ extend above the ground (meets State and local standards)?
- 1 foot above ground or above the 100 year flood level
- Are all _abandoned wells_ properly plugged?
- Sealed and permanently closed

## Farmstead, Headquarters or Livestock Feeding and Handling Areas

- Fertilizer/Pesticide Storage and Handling Areas
- Is the well located a safe distance from the fertilizer/pesticide storage site and/or _mixing and loading areas_?
- 50-100 feet from well, downslope if applicable
- If the fertilizer/pesticide storage site is located on highly permeable soil (sandy soil), is there secondary containment?

## Farmstead, Headquarters or Livestock Feeding and Handling Areas

- Is rinse water from cleaning fertilizer/pesticide application equipment properly disposed of?
- According to label and/or MSDS instructions
- Are used pesticide containers properly disposed of?
- According to label and/or MSDS instructions

## Farmstead, Headquarters or Livestock Feeding and Handling Areas

- If you answered “no” to any of the previous questions, you may not be eligible for Tier III at this time.

- End of Assessment for Farmstead, Headquarters or Livestock Feeding and Handling Areas

## Evaluation Complete

- If you are not eligible at this time
- Use the assessment to identify a smaller portion of land that may be eligible
- Identify remaining conservation work outlined in your conservation plan
- Work with NRCS office to develop plan if you do not have one in place
- Look at other conservation programs for assistance in completing conservation practices that may help you become eligible
- Obtain technical assistance from NRCS

## Step 3 – Describe your operation

- Describe the fields or portion of your farm that you are proposing for CSP
- Describe crop rotation and associated tillage
- Pasture rotation and associated grass management
- Describe any new or innovative activities, techniques or methods in your operation
- For sample record keeping sheets refer to the assessment workbook, see an NRCS representative, or refer to the Utah NRCS website at: www.ut.nrcs.usda.gov/programs/CSP/index.html

## Step 4 - Application

- Bring following to local NRCS office
- Completed self assessment workbook
- Plan map or aerial photo of your operation
- Identification and location of practices installed
- Number of acres and crop rotations for each field
- Management activities and practices being used on each field (i.e. irrigation water, nutrient, pest, and grazing management, terraces, filter strips, wildlife habitat, etc.)
- Written records and documentation of management activities (at least 2 yrs)

## Application

- Additional items to bring to the NRCS office:
- Location of wells, roads, windbreaks, storage buildings, etc.
- If you do not own the land, copies of agreements that refer to the land being offered in CSP
- Lease
- Power of attorney
- Assurance (letter or certification) that you have control of farming operation for the life of the contract
- Agreements regarding distribution of payments

## Congratulations

- SELF ASSESSMENT HAS BEEN COMPLETED
- For those not eligible at this time, identify those missing components and begin preparation for a future signup