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The U.S. Department of Agriculture is asking farmers about their conservation practices.
The Conservation Effects Assessment Project or CEAP (seep) survey will collect information
from producers about farming and conservation practices on cultivated cropland. This information
will help USDA determine what farmers need to further protect soil, water and related
resources. This CEAP effort really is an opportunity for farmers to really weigh in and tell us
the types of conservation practices they’re using. In turn we will use that information
to better inform our programs. Do we need more here? Do we need less here? What do we
need to change? We believe that the fate of the environment really hinges on the decisions
that our farmers and ranchers and woodland owners make affecting their lands. And this
provides us real data on how we can better serve those people. The CEAP survey information
will be collected by USDA’s National Agricultural Statistics Service, or NASS, and will be kept
completely confidential. It’s protected by law. There’s no way that any producer’s
responses will ever be linked back to them. The information is used in aggregate and it’s
a hundred percent confidential. It really helps USDA become better at serving farmers
because now we know a little bit better of what’s happening on the landscape. NASS
will be collecting CEAP information through January, 2013. For the U.S. Department of
Agriculture, I’m Bob Ellison.