The CP-33 program was designed to bring back habitat for upland birds. It benifits other species as well. especially rabbits. Turkeys benifit from it as well as deer.
The program was based on the facts that before modern farming practices. we had lots of game because there was always a grass and weed edge on all fields, ditches,and fence rows
the program designed for farming and pasture land puts a boarder around the fields and pays the land owner/ farmer to leave it out.
Contracts for this program varry. ours is a 10 year deal paying 100 per acre as an inital sign up and then 30 peracre the 2-10 years. also signed up for the wip program cost sharing planting native and warm season grasses in the boarders.
we aslo have some crp in which a ag field or pasture is taken out of farming or can not be grazed. you can plant it in pines or mow/burn/disc when they tell you, you can.
the only draw back with this program is planting pines. the pines are regulated by theprogram. they determine when and how you can thin for pulp wood/chip and saw. by the time the trees are mature for the final cut your contract is over 30 yrs.
this program is very economical for the land owner. paying up to 150 per acre intial sign up and then 20-35 per acre per year for 30 yrs. the pine trees also yield about 100 per acre of the coarse of the 30 yrs.

With the rising cost of land and taxes. we are loosing allot of farm land to developers. Farmers/land owners need to take advantage of every opertunity to get the most $ per acre they can.
State and Federal programs can help with this a bunch. Especialy, when combined with a good management program of trees, agriculture, and of coarse using the land during thefall and winter forrecreational use(Hunting)