FY05 Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP) - Oregon

General Program Description

Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP) is a voluntary conservation program from the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS), re-authorized in the 2002 Farm Bill. The program supports production agriculture and environmental quality as compatible goals. Through EQIP, farmers may receive financial and technical help with structural and management conservation practices on agricultural land.
NRCS administers EQIP based on locally identified natural resource needs consistent with national EQIP priorities. Local Work Groups (LWG) convened by the Soil and Water Conservation Districts provide advice to NRCS about local priorities within their local area. With this advice, NRCS evaluates applications for funding EQIP contracts consistent with these local and national priorities.
EQIP offers contracts with a minimum term that ends one year after the implementation of the last scheduled practices and a maximum term of ten years. These contracts provide incentive payments and cost-shares to implement selected conservation practices. Persons who are engaged in livestock or agricultural production on eligible land may participate in the EQIP program. EQIP activities are carried out according to a conservation plan developed in conjunction with the producer that identifies the appropriate conservation practice or practices to address the resource concerns. The practices are subject to NRCS technical standards adapted for local conditions.

Limited resource producers and beginning farmers and ranchers may be eligible for higher cost-shares.  Click here to check your eligibility.  On-Line Limited Resource Self-Determination Tool
 

2005 EQIP General Program Description Documents:

• How EQIP in Oregon Works
• 2005 Special Projects for Water Quality and Species of Concern (coming soon)
• Local Working Groups and State Technical Advisory Committee (coming soon)
• Application Process
• Program and Land Eligibility

2005 EQIP Conservation Practice Protocols and Ranking Documents

• 2005 Basin and County Funding
  
• 2005 Basin and County Natural Resource Priorities
• 2005 Basin, County and Tribal Screening and Ranking Information
• 2005 Oregon EQIP Cost Lists
• Limited Resource/Beginning Farm Cost Share Information

Links to Other Useful Documents for the 2005 EQIP Program

• Oregon Field Office Technical Guide
• EQIP Fact sheets
• Oregon's EQIP Success Stories (coming soon)

Oregon EQIP Fiscal Year 2005 Contacts

Local Contact:
Please contact the District Conservationist in the USDA Service Center nearest the location of your property.

Oregon EQIP Program Manager:
Bill White
Phone: (503) 414-3085
Email: bill.white@or.usda.gov

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