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Lamar County 2008 EQIP Program

Executive Summary

The USDA-Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) in Lamar County, Alabama, will hold a signup for the Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP) for the 2008 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 Lamar NRCS office and fill out an application requesting technical and financial assistance.

You can file this application in Vernon at the NRCS office between the hours of 8:00 a.m. and 4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday. The office is located at 145 Columbus Avenue NW, off the Courthouse Square. The telephone number is 205-695-7622, extension 3. Contact is District Conservationist Susan Duff.

All applications received through October 26, 2007, will be ranked in the first batching period. Subsequent batching dates will be announced if needed.

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

  1. Grazing Lands
  2. Forest Health and Wildlife
  3. Water Quality/Animal Waste
  4. Erosion/Soil Quality

All applications will be ranked and approvals based on national, state, and local environmental ranking worksheets that will insure that the most environmental benefit is received from the applications approved. Applicants may certify as a beginning farmer and receive additional ranking points. A beginning farmer is defined as one who has not operated a farm, or who has operated a farm for not more than 10 consecutive years.

Applicants with the highest generated point totals from the national, state, and local worksheets plus the beginning farmer factor, if applicable, will be ranked higher in consideration to receive cost-share assistance than those applicants with lower points. In the event of a tie, higher priority will be given applicants who have not received prior cost-share assistance in the EQIP program. If a tie still exists, a random drawing will be held.

Alabama NRCS state approved EQIP Practice and Payment Schedule will be offered in Lamar County. An additional county restriction will be placed on the residue management and pest management practices. An applicant can only receive the incentive payment on a maximum of 200 acres for each practice.

Applicants may apply as a Limited Resource Farmer and receive a higher program payment rate. To see if an applicant qualifies as a Limited Resource Farmer, go to the NRCS web site www.lrftool.sc.egov.usda.gov/tool.asp.

If all funds allocated for county resource concerns are not obligated, unfunded state-wide resource concerns may be funded with the county allocation.

County Ranking Tool for FY2008 County Allocations

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

 These documents may require Adobe Acrobat or Microsoft Excel.

Adobe Acrobat DocumentAlabama EQIP Practice and Payment Schedule 2008

Adobe Acrobat DocumentAppendix 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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