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Fayette County 2007 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 2007 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 November 17, 2006, for State Wide and County (local) concerns will be ranked in the first batching period. If all of the money is 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. Erosion (Soil Quality)
  3. Grazing Lands
  4. Forest Health and Wildlife

All applications will be ranked and approvals based on a state environmental worksheet that will insure that the most environmental benefits are achieved.

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 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.

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

County Ranking Tool for FY2007 County Allocations

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

 These documents may require Adobe Acrobat or Microsoft Excel.

Eligible Practices and Cost-share Types and Rates FY07
Appendix to Form NRCS-CPA-1202: Conservation Program Contract (National NRCS-will open in new window)

Adobe Acrobat DocumentConservation Program Application - NRCS-CPA-1200 (39 KB)

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