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Fayette County 2006 EQIP Program

Executive Summary

The USDA-Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) in Fayette County, Alabama, will hold a signup for the Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP) for the 2006 Fiscal year. This signup will be held on a continuous basis.

If you have a resource concern or problem on pastureland, cropland, hay land, private non-industrial forest land, or other land on your farm, come by the NRCS office and fill out an application requesting technical and financial assistance.

You can file this application in Fayette at the NRCS and Soil and Water Conservation District office between the hours of 8:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m., Monday through Friday. The office is located at 103 First Ave. NW in the Courthouse Annex. The telephone number is 205-932-8959, extension 3.

All applications received through January 6, 2006, for State Wide and County (local) concerns will be ranked in the first batching period. If all monies are not obligated with the first batching or other funds become available, then subsequent batching periods will be held as needed until all funds are obligated.

The local concerns that have been selected in order of priority are:

  1. Water Quality (Animal Waste)
  2. Grazing Lands
  3. Erosion (Soil Quality)
  4. Forest Health and Wildlife
  5. Water Conservation
  6. Invasive Species and Noxious Plant Control

All applications will be ranked and approvals based on a state environmental worksheet that will insure that the most environmental benefits are achieved. Applicants may certify as a Beginning Farmer or rancher and receive additional ranking points. A Beginning Farmer or
rancher is defined as one who has not operated a farm, or who has operated a farm for not more than 10 consecutive years.

In the event of a tie in environmental points, higher priority will be given as follows:

1. to applications addressing the highest number of resource concerns.
2. to applications with the greatest number of criteria.
3. If a tie still exists, a random drawing will be held.

An additional county restriction will be placed on the residue management practice. An applicant can only receive the incentive payment on a maximum of 100 acres.

Cost-share rates generally range from 50 percent to 75 percent of the Alabama NRCS average cost list. Such practices as residue management (conservation tillage), nutrient management
(animal waste) and pest management are eligible for 100 percent incentive payments.

Applicants may also certify as a Limited Resource Farmer and receive a 90 percent cost-share rate.

Additional information is available at: http://www.nrcs.usda.gov/programs/eqip/.  

  These documents require Adobe Acrobat.

Adobe Acrobat DocumentConservation Program Application - CCC1200 (330 KB)
Adobe Acrobat DocumentState Practices and Restrictions (121 KB)
Adobe Acrobat DocumentState Cost-Share Rates (115 KB)

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