Frequently Asked Questions

The Program feature: The USDA climate-smart conservation program is a set of pilot projects geared towards farmers as an incentive to implement climate-smart conservation best-in-class standards on working lands.  

The benefit to the land: Each pilot project constitutes a quantitative (quantity) and qualification method to monitor the carbon and greenhouse gas benefits associated with those practices. 

The benefit to the landowner:  This benefit adds value to landowners by increasing yield production, results in passive income.  

The Program feature: The Program feature: The SMART practices will expand commodities market by creating an advantage towards greenhouse gas while creating benefits of climate-smart commodity production. 

The benefit to the land and the farmer: Provide direct, meaningful benefits to production agriculture, including for small and underserved producers. 

The benefit to the landowner: This benefit adds value to landowners by increasing yield production, results in passive income.   an answer to this item.

The Program feature: This land infrastructure maybe subject to a co-share program between USDA and the landowner; however, both landowner and the farmer gains outweigh the of co-cost of the irrigation system.

The benefit to the farmer: Greater yield production. 

The benefit to the landowner and the farmer: This benefit adds value to landowners with passive income. 

The Program feature: The Food Security program provide community supply chain to the Bulloch food system and creates a LOCAL B2B distribution supply chain. 

The benefit to the farmer: Greater yield production. 

The benefit to the landowner and the farmer: This benefit adds value to landowners with passive income. 

The Program feature: Solar Farm harvesting. 

The benefit to the farmer: A line service product

The benefit to the landowner: This benefit adds value to landowner's ROI with passive income. This landowner receives credits from the servicing power energy entity. 

(Note: The closest energy company that offers solar contracts for Bulloch county is Georgia Power in Savannah, Georgia (verified in 2022, up for reverification in 2023 ). 

The Program feature: Solar Farm harvesting. 

The benefit to the farmer: A line source product. 

The benefit to the landowner: Looking to have a wind turbine farm, we can connect you to certified resources. Wind turbines are a renewable resource and considered as a conservation asset to landowners and considered as part of the renewable collection of natural resources. We can connect you to certified talent for this farm type. 

(Note: Wind turbines contracts for Bulloch county is not available for small farm owners (verified in 2022, up for reverification in 2023 ).