date:Jun 20, 2014
To date, about $500 million in USDA financial assistance has been provided or obligated to farmers enrolling land in the six CREPs.
For 25 years, USDA has worked with the six Bay states (New York, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Delaware, Virginia and West Virginia) to improve and restore the Chesapeake Bay, with more than 7,000 miles of riparian forest buffers established by private landowners in the Bay states since 1996. In 2013, the CREP's buffers have intercepted an estimated eight million tons o