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Fayette County 2008 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 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 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 4:30 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. Contact is District Conservationist April Hill.

All applications received through October 26, 2007, 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 approved based on an approved state ranking worksheet that will insure that the most environmental benefits are achieved.

Fayette County will use the Alabama NRCS state approved EQIP Practice and Payment Schedule.  Limited Resource Farmers will be paid at an increased payment rate.

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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