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Vision: Productive Lands—Healthy Environment Mission: Helping People Help the Land

Vision: Productive Lands—Healthy Environment Mission: Helping People Help the Land Guiding Principles Service Technical Excellence Partnerships. Mission: Helping People Help the Land. Conservation Planning Identifying Resources Concerns (SWAPA) Soil Erosion

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Vision: Productive Lands—Healthy Environment Mission: Helping People Help the Land

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  1. Vision: Productive Lands—Healthy Environment • Mission: Helping People Help the Land • Guiding Principles • Service • Technical Excellence • Partnerships

  2. Mission: Helping People Help the Land • Conservation Planning • Identifying Resources Concerns (SWAPA) • Soil Erosion • Water Quality and Water Quantity • Animal Health • Plant Health • Air Quality • Choosing Practices that will address Resource Concerns

  3. Cost-Share Programs • Using Cost-Share to implement a conservation plan • Participation Is Voluntary • Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP)

  4. EQIP • Started as a cost-share program with 1996 Farm Bill • Used to provide funding to address environmental problems • Erosion control • Water quality and quantity

  5. Partners, & Programs • Northwest Florida Mobile Irrigation Lab • Established Nov 2004 • Performs initial evaluation of irrigation systems and calculates the Potential Water Savings (PWS) • Performs follow-up evaluations and calculates Actual Water Savings (AWS)

  6. Partners, &Programs • Water savings in the Blue Springs Basin • PWS 889 MILLION gallons on 80 initial evaluations • AWS 474 MILLION gallons on 56 follow-up evaluations

  7. Partners,& Programs • EQIP • Cost-share available for improvement of existing irrigation system’s efficiency (water savings or reduced consumption) • Cost-share available to implement practices that improve water quality • In 2009 NCRS developed a special fund called the Springs Initiative.

  8. Partners,& Programs • 15 contracts (= farmers that have voluntarily decided to improve irrigation efficiency) in 2009 in the Blue Springs Basin • >$444, 800 obligated • >$280,000 paid to retrofit existing systems to improve irrigation efficiency • Irrigation Water Management on >4,000 ac

  9. BEFORE

  10. AFTER

  11. QUESTIONS?

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