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Tag: EQIP
Farmers Need Incentives To Overcome Risks Of Adopting Climate-Smart Agriculture Practices Aug 23, 2023
Change is not easy, especially when it involves financial risk. That’s the situation farmers and ranchers find themselves in when considering innovative, climate-smart agricultural practices. Sure, in the long run, […]
Ag Funding in President Biden’s Agenda – DTN Nov 1, 2021
The Build Back Better Act would inject more than $27 billion into conservation programs and expand investment in biofuels — all tied to climate provisions in the bill — while […]
Rice: RCPP Deadlines Approaching for Texas, Louisiana Mar 7, 2019
Rice producers in Texas have until March 15 to apply for a special Regional Conservation Partnership (RCPP) Environmental Quality Incentives (EQIP) program, while rice producers in Louisiana have until April […]
North Carolina: Assistance Available for Hurricane Damaged Ag Land Dec 27, 2018
North Carolina farmers with privately owned lands in Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) declared disaster counties can apply for financial assistance to address resource concerns that were caused by 2018 […]
Florida: NRCS Aid Available for Hurricane Damaged Ag Land Oct 26, 2018
Florida farmers and ranchers who suffered damage to working lands and livestock mortality due to Hurricane Michael are encouraged to sign up for the Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP) through […]
Farm Bill Stalemate: Conservation Concerns Oct 18, 2018
The conservation title is traditionally one of the least controversial and partisan of the major, mandatory funding titles in a farm bill debate; that the conservation is part of the […]
Georgia: Hurricane Assistance Available for 7 Additional Counties Oct 17, 2018
Farmers and ranchers in seven additional Georgia counties are now available for assistance to address damage to working lands and livestock mortality because of Hurricane Michael through the U.S. Department […]
Georgia: Hurricane Relief – Livestock Mortality and Carcass Disposal Oct 16, 2018
Georgia farmers and ranchers who suffered damage to working lands and livestock mortality because of Hurricane Michael are encouraged to sign up for the Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP) through […]
California Invests Over $100 Mln in Ag Conservation in 2018 Oct 15, 2018
California invested just over $100 million in a broad diversity of conservation contracts with farmers, ranchers and private forest landowners through the USDA’s Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP) in the […]
South Carolina: USDA Assistance Available for Flood Damaged Ag Land Sep 20, 2018
The USDA is responding to South Carolina farmers and ranchers who suffered damage to working lands and livestock mortality because of Hurricane Florence. Producers are encouraged to sign up for […]
