There are several government programs that either pay farmers to adopt sustainable farming techniques, mitigate environmental disasters or preserve wildlife habitat. That's great, though one thing you'll hear from the farming community is that there are farmers who do that already.
It would be nice if they could be rewarded for doing the right thing by something other than a voluntary disadvantage in the marketplace. And they could be, because there's a government program that was designed to do exactly that. Naturally, that program is run on a shoestring, regularly pillaged to make up for shortfalls elsewhere and on its current schedule, would take about 50 years to get around to offering its temporary enrollments to farmers in every state. It's called the Conservation Security Program (CSP.)
