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The Flying Leatherneck Ranch, where owner, Hay Producer, and Marine Jim McClain has entered into an easement agreement with the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS), where some of his property enters the Agricultural Conservation Easement Program (ACEP) while retaining a lifetime of grazing rights and ensuring a legacy of working agricultural land use in Orangeburg, South Carolina, on Nov 18, 2020.

His premium coastal hay is grown to feed his cattle and for sale to horse owners. The ACEP provides financial and technical assistance to help conserve agricultural lands and wetlands and their related benefits. Under the Agricultural Land Easements component, NRCS helps landowners or land users to protect working agricultural lands and to keep them in their current state.

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The Flying Leatherneck Ranch, where owner, Hay Producer, and Marine Jim McClain has entered into an easement agreement with the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS), where some of his property enters the Agricultural Conservation Easement Program (ACEP) while retaining a lifetime of grazing rights and ensuring a legacy of working agricultural land use in Orangeburg, South Carolina, on Nov 18, 2020.

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