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Natural Resources conservation service Cost-share Programs

Natural Resources conservation service Cost-share Programs. Helping People Help The Land. USDA-Natural Resources Conservation Service. Conservation Technical Assistance (CTA) Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP) Wildlife Habitat Incentives Program (WHIP).

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Natural Resources conservation service Cost-share Programs

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  1. Natural Resources conservation service Cost-share Programs Helping People Help The Land

  2. USDA-Natural ResourcesConservationService • Conservation Technical Assistance (CTA) • Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP) • Wildlife Habitat Incentives Program (WHIP)

  3. Conservation Technical Assistance • Voluntary Program • Available to land owners/operators at no cost. • Often results in a conservation plan.

  4. A Conservation plan includes: Producers objectives/goals; Aerial photograph of your operation; Soils map and descriptions; Resource inventory; List of your treatment decisions; Location and schedule for applying conservation practices. Conservation Technical Assistance

  5. EQIP • EQIP: • Voluntary program that provides financial and technical assistance to agricultural producers. • Sign-Up: • Continuous however, NRCS establishes application “cut off” deadline dates for evaluation and ranking of eligible applications.

  6. EQIP • NRCS: • Works with landowners to develop contracts and implement conservation practices that address environmental natural resource problems and sustain food and fiber. • Payments: • Made to producers once practices are completed according to NRCS requirements.

  7. EQIP • Rates: • Up to 75% cost-share for standard contracts and 90% for beginning, limited resource or socially disadvantaged farmers and ranchers. • Payment limitation: • $300,000 per individual. • Contract length: • Minimum 1 year after implementation of last scheduled practice, Maximum 10yrs

  8. WHIP • Sign up: • Continuous • Purpose: • Help landowners or lessees develop and improve wildlife habitat. • Protect , restore, develop or enhance fish and wildlife habitat. • Eligible land: • Tribal land, private agricultural, state and federal lands.

  9. WHIP • Payment Limitation: • 50,000/person or legal entity/year. • Rates: • Up to 75% cost-share for standard contracts. Up to 90% cost-share for historically underserved. • Applications typically ranked once a year.

  10. Conservation Program Eligibility • Limited to individuals/entities making less than $1 million/yr average adjusted gross farm income (AGI). • Unless 66% or more of the income comes from farming, ranching or forestry. • Secretary of Agriculture can waive AGI limit for projects on environmentally sensitive land.

  11. Thank you for your time 522 Main Street Junction, TX 76849 Phone #: (325) 446-2717 x 3 www.tx.nrcs.usda.gov Alfredo Muñoz Rangeland Management Specialist alfredo.munoz@tx.usda.gov

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