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Lauderdale County 2008 EQIP Program

Executive Summary

The USDA-Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) in Lauderdale 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 land user who has a resource concern or problem on pastureland, cropland, or hay land may apply for assistance through this program.

Applications may be made at the NRCS office of the Lauderdale County USDA Service Center located at 2431 Darby Drive, Suite B, Florence, Alabama, Monday through Friday from 8:00 a.m. until 4:00 p.m. The telephone number is 256-764-5833, extension 3 and the fax number is 256-7647224. The local contact person for NRCS is Renea Dyer, District Conservationist.

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

  1. Grazing Land (with an emphasis on drought losses)
  2. Erosion/Soil Quality

All applications will be ranked using an environmental benefits worksheet and approvals will be given to the applicants that will provide the greatest environmental benefits, i.e. those receiving the most environmental points. Contracts will be developed for approved applications in order of descending environmental points, until all funds are obligated.

Limitations

  • Pasture planting – 50 acres, cross fencing – 3000 feet
  • pipeline – 1000 feet
  • water troughs - 3 each
  • stream crossing - 1 each
  • heavy use area – 1800 square feet (2- 30x30 pads)
  • critical area planting – 3 acres
  • well - must have greater than 9 animal units, conservation tillage – 100 acres. Pasture and hayland planting (code 512) requires a current (within past 2 years) soil test to be presented to the local office by the batching date. Ponds will be required to be fenced out with a watering ramp installed for livestock water.

Applications will be batched and ranked. The first batching of applications will have a cut-off date of October 26, 2007. Application filed later than this date will be considered in the next pool of funding (if additional funds become available). If two or more applications have the same number of environmental points, selection will be made by random drawing.

Eligible Practices, Restrictions, and Payment Schedule approved by the Alabama State NRCS will be used to obligate contract funds. Planned conservation practices used to address the priority resource concerns will come from this list. Limited Resource Farmers will be paid at an increased practice payment rate.

The Alabama NRCS state approved EQIP Practice and Payment Schedule will be used for Lauderdale County EQIP application.

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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