Nebraska Agricultural Conservation Easement Program (ACEP)

Eligible Practices

• Agroforestry / Forestry
• Alley Cropping
• Amending Soil Properties with Lime
• Buffer Strips
• Carbon Sequestration
• Conservation Cover
• Conservation Crop Rotation
• Conservation Crop Rotations
• Conservation Cropping Rotation
• Contour Buffer Strips
• Cover Crops
• Crop Rotation
• Denitrifying Bioreactor
• Disaster Relief Assistance
• Drainage Water Management
• Edge-of-Field Management
• Federal
• Feed Management
• Fencing
• Field Border
• Field Borders
• Filter Strip
• Filter Strips
• Forest Stand Improvement
• Forest Stand Improvements
• Funding
• Grassed Waterway
• Grazing and Pasture
• Hedgerow Planting
• Herbaceous Wind Barriers
• In-Field Management
• Increase Biodiversity
• Increased Biodiversity
• Integrated Pest Management Plans
• Irrigation Water Management
• Livestock Pipeline
• Living Roots Year-Round
• Manure Management
• Mulching
• Nutrient Management
• Pasture And Hay Planting
• Pasture and Hayland Planting
• Pollinator Habitat
• Prescribed Burning
• Prescribed Grazing
• Range Planting
• Reduced- or No-Till
• Regenerative Ag
• Residue and Tillage Management
• Riparian Forest Buffer
• Riparian Herbaceous Cover
• Silvopasture
• Soil Health. Other programs may have different combinations of eligible practices.
• Tree/Shrub Establishment
• Upland Wildlife Habitat Management
• Vegetative Barriers
• Waste Separation Facility
• Watering Facility
• Wetland Restoration
• Windbreak/Shelterbelt Establishment and Renovation

Eligible Counties (in NE)

Statewide

Price

Payments are often a percentage of the property's appraised value, which can range from 50% to 75% and are determined by factors like land value and development pressure. https://www.nrcs.usda.gov/getting-assistance/payment-schedules