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Cullman County 2008 EQIP Program

Executive Summary

The USDA-Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) in Cullman 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. Any eligible landuser who has a resource concern or problem on pastureland, cropland, hayland, or forest land may apply for assistance through this program.

Applications may be made at the Cullman County USDA Service Center located at 205 4th Ave. NE, Cullman, Alabama 35055, Monday through Friday from 7:30 a.m. until 4:00 p.m. The telephone number is 256-734-6471, extension 3, and the fax number is 256-734-1431. The local contact person is Murray Griffin, District Conservationist.

The USDA work group has prioritized the resource concerns in Cullman County as:

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

Limited Resource Farmers will be paid at an increased payment rate.The Alabama NRCS state approved EQIP Practice and Payment Schedule for practices and Restrictions and Payment Rates will be used for planned conservation practices to address the priority resource concerns. The following limits will be placed on conservation practices:

  • Conservation Tillage (practice code 329) 100 acres
  • Pasture Replanting Related to Drought (practice code 512) 150 acres
  • Pasture Planting, i.e. converted cropland, cutover land etc. (practice code 512) 100 acres
  • Low Density Pine Planting (practice code 612) 100 acres
  • Native Grass Planting (practice code 647) 50 acres

All applications will be ranked using the national NRCS Ranking Tool and approvals will be given to those applications that will provide the greatest environmental benefits, i.e. those receiving the most environmental points.

In case two or more applications receive an equal number of environmental points, the applications that have received no prior cost-share assistance will be approved first. If the environmental points are still equal, the earliest chronological date that the applications were filed will be approved first.

Contracts will be developed for approved applications in order of descending environmental points, until all funds are obligated. Applications first batching period for ranking and application prioritization will be October 26, 2007. Additional batching periods will be held if subsequent allocations are received.

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 Document Alabama 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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