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Chilton County 2008 EQIP Program

Executive Summary

The USDA-Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) in Chilton County, Alabama, will hold a sign-up 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, or forestland on your farm that you need assistance in treating, visit the NRCS Office and make an application at the USDA-NRCS Office between the hours of 8:00 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday. The office is located at 210 7th Street South, Clanton, Alabama. Phone is 205-755-0210, extension 3. Appointments are encouraged. Contact is District Conservationist Tim Poole.

Applications will be taken through October 26, 2007, and be ranked using the state approved ranking sheets. Any funds not allocated during the first batching period will be available for subsequent batching dates on 15 day intervals.

The USDA Workgroup has prioritized the following Resource Concerns in Chilton County as follows:

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

All applications will be ranked and approved based on an environmental ranking worksheet that will insure the most environmental benefit is received for the program dollar expended. Individuals with the highest point totals generated from this worksheet will be ranked higher in consideration to receive cost share assistance than those individuals with lower points. In the event of a tie between applications, the application with the lowest cost for benefits obtained will be considered for cost share assistance. Secondary ties will be ranked and awarded using the Chilton County watershed assessment priority rankings.

All conservation practices and cost-share rates will be the same as in the Alabama NRCS state approved EQIP Practice and Payment Schedule.  Limited resource farmers will be paid at an increased payment rate.

Various conservation practices such as no-till/con-till will have a 100 acre limit per applicant and a 3-year adoption of technology period limit. There shall be no cost-share for perimeter fences; with the exception of converting cropland to permanent pasture and woodland grazing up to 20 acres for limited resources farmers.

Program Payment rates on all other practices will be the same as listed in the above mentioned list. The state-wide ranking sheet for the above listed resource concerns will be used in ranking the applications.

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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