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Lauderdale County 2006 EQIP Program

Executive Summary

The USDA-Natural Resources Conservation Service in Lauderdale County, Alabama, will hold a signup for the Environmental Incentives Program (EQIP) for 2006 fiscal year. This signup will be held on a continuous basis. Any eligible landuser who has a resource concern or problem on pastureland, cropland, or hayland may apply for assistance through this program.

Applications may be made at the NRCS office of the Lauderdale County USDA Service Center located at 2431 Darby Dr., Suite B, Florence, Alabama, Monday through Friday from 7:30 a.m. until 4:00 p.m. The telephone number is 256-764-5833, extension 3, and the fax number is 256-764-7224. The local contact person is Renea Dyer, District Conservationist.

The USDA workgroup has prioritized the resource concerns and allocated the EQIP funds in Lauderdale County as follows:

1. Erosion/Soil Quality
2. Grazing Lands

Approval will be given to those applications with the highest ranking points. Contracts will be developed for approved applications in the order of descending ranking points, until all funds are obligated.

Conservation tillage (practice code 329) is limited to 100 acres per tax ID number/entity. Pasture and Hayland Planting (practice code 512) requires a current soil test (within the past 2 years) to be turned in to the office by the batching period date of the application to be considered for this practice. Ponds (practice code 378) will be required to have animals fenced out and a watering ramp installed for livestock water.

The first batching of applications will have a cut-off date of January 6, 2006. Any applications filed later than this date will be considered in the next pool of funding (if additional funds become available). If ties between applicants exist (i.e. two or more applicants have the same number of ranking points), selection will be made by random drawing.

The NRCS state approved Practice, Restriction and Cost-share rate lists will be used for Lauderdale County EQIP application.

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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