I am going to need some help.

I have a few acres that I've applied for CRP planting of native grasses for the 15 year program. Not approved yet but wanting advice on equipment to use to get a good stand and other tips since I've never did this before. I imagine I'll get paper from the FSA on procedure but want to be ahead of the game and also to pick up a piece or two of equipment I might need.

After the field is clean— look at your soil type for fescue K-31. This will start easy and push out most weeds, works good on wetter ground. Make sure you do not have any “woody” roots in the ground.

I had 81 acres of CRP for 30 years. you will need a sprayer, a mower, a tractor of course, a good chain saw or 2, I rented the no till drill from Pheasants Forever, the FSA office will give you paperwork to take to the seed dealer, he will order it in for you. it will be a combination of several kinds of seeds. if you think you will make easy money on this...you won't! it's a lot of work, and the work usually has to be done when you are busy doing other things that need to be done. I always had to burn mine off by a certain date, or go take weeds out, or mow it, or spray it, or de-tree it, or some other silly thing the FSA wanted done right at planting time or you'd be fined or something. they always hold you up with chit of do this or we'll fine you or we'll take away your payments and you'll hafta pay back all the payments they have already gave to you. at first they said let the trees grow, it's good habitat, then after the trees were growing good (about 10 years later), they said we couldn't have trees there! so I bought a tree puller from Coke's son and pulled about 1500 trees and piled them for burning. then they said I couldn't burn the piles cuz that was good habitat! then later I was supposed to get rid of the piles of trees! sometime in the course of a good stand of grass, they'll want you to kill it off and re-seed it. they'll want different types than what was growing there the past 10-15 years dropping seeds every year. so what ever you re-seed with will be taken over by what was already growing there before. you'd be a lot better off planting crops.

I just got rejected for another 10 year sign up. I put y 3.5 acres in the wildlife Habitat Plan, 22 years ago. 10 years at a time, then the last 2 years as a yearly extension.