The National Farm Service Agency office issued the subject notice and required that it be distributed to the State Technical Committee (STC). Click here to see the notice.

For those of you not familiar with SAFE, here is a little background information.  SAFE is a wildlife initiative within the Conservation Reserve Program (CRP).  NC’s SAFE is specifically to establish native early successional habitat to enhance environmental benefits in a designated area for the following targeted bird species:  Northern Bobwhite Quail, Grasshopper Sparrow, Eastern Meadowlark, Loggerhead Shrike and Eastern Kingbird.  The original SAFE proposal for NC was approved in May of 2008 for the following counties:  Bertie, Edgecombe, Halifax, Hertford, Martin, Nash, Northampton and Wilson.  In 2010, NC submitted and was approved a SAFE Expansion for the following counties:  Bladen, Cumberland, Duplin, Johnston Sampson and Wayne.  NC’s original allocation was 5,600 acres but was reduced to 2,600 acres in 2011.  As of March 2012, NC has approximately 500 acres approved on 18 contracts.

If you have any questions or comments, please feel free to contact me or Tim.


Susan Woodall
Agricultural Program Specialist
Conservation Division
N. C. State FSA Office
919-875-4819

 
Tim Jones
Supervisory Agricultural Program Specialist
Farm Programs
N. C. State FSA Office
919-875-4818