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Crawford County EQIP
The Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP) is a voluntary
conservation program of the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS)
that promotes agricultural production and environmental quality. This program is
available to farmers and offers financial and technical assistance to install or
implement structural and management practices on eligible agricultural land.
The following are Crawford County resource concerns to be addressed by EQIP:
- Soil Erosion – Sheet and Rill
- Soil Erosion – Ephemeral Gully
- Soil Erosion - Streambank
- Water Quality – Excessive nutrients and organics in surface water
- Water Quality – Excessive nutrients and organics in groundwater
- Water Quality – Harmful levels of pathogens in surface water
- Water Quality – Excessive suspended sediment and turbidity in surface
water
- Plant Condition – Productivity Health and Vigor
- Plant Condition – Forage Quality and Palatability
- Domestic Animals – Inadequate Quantity/Quality of Feed/Forage
- Domestic Animals – Inadequate Stock Water
- Fish & Wildlife – Inadequate Cover/Shelter
- Fish & Wildlife - T & E Species Promotion
- Air Quality – Objectionable odors
- Air Quality - Particulate matter (PM 10 and PM 2.5).
- Soil Condition – Organic Matter Depletion
- These resource concerns address the following National EQIP priorities:
- Reduction of soil erosion and sedimentation from unacceptable high levels
on agricultural land.
- Reduction of non-point source pollution, such as nutrients, sediment,
pesticides, or excess salinity in impaired watersheds consistent with Total
Maximum Daily Loads (TMDLs), where available, as well as the reduction of
groundwater contamination and reduction of point sources such as contamination
from confined animal feeding operations.
The goal of the locally led group was to recommend a ranking system that
rewarded and gave priority to those producers that address the above resource
concerns and priorities listed below:
- Assist producers with open feedlots to improve manure collection and
management.
- Improve erosion control on cropland.
- Provide additional land treatment above existing recreational water bodies
and organized watershed projects in the county.
- Encourage multiple resource benefits.
- Encourage producers to try long term no-till or nutrient management, both
cost efficient and effective practices.
- Establish examples of modern improved grazing systems to educate and
promote the use of less erosive land uses.
- Assist producers that want the guidance of a comprehensive nutrient
management plan (CNMP) for their livestock operation.
Practices protecting local recreational water bodies: Yellowsmoke, Nelson,
Manteno, Izaak Walton, Ahart/Rudd.
The ranking will be completed for the specific practices to be applied
through the EQIP contract. Sign-up is continuous at the NRCS field office.
Application ranking will be done periodically as funding allocations become
available, will be announced through the NRCS State Office, and will be
publicized by all levels of NRCS. The NRCS may establish local, minimum ranking
cut-off levels for funding selection.
The local work group also recommended a list of conservation practices that
are the most cost-effective, longest duration and address these priority
resource concerns in the district. The work group has approved a higher payment
rate for limited resource producers EQIP must be used to address existing
resource concerns; therefore, new animal feeding operations are not eligible for
financial assistance unless they are related to closing or relocating an
existing feeding operation.
For more information on EQIP and other NRCS administrated programs, contact
the Crawford County USDA Service Center located at 3707 Timberline Drive, Suite
1, Denison Iowa 51442. Phone (712) 263-4123. Fax (712) 263-5918.
The following files require
Acrobat Reader.
EQIP
Practice List - 2009
EQIP
Application Ranking - 2009
EQIP
Nutrient Management Intensity Options - 2009
EQIP
Practice List - 2008 For Archival Purposes Only
EQIP
Application Ranking - 2008 For Archival Purposes Only
EQIP
Nutrient Management Intensity Options - 2008 For Archival Purposes Only
EQIP
Practice List - 2007 For Archival Purposes Only
EQIP
Application Ranking - 2007 For Archival Purposes Only
EQIP
Nutrient Management Intensity Options - 2007 For Archival Purposes Only
EQIP
Prescribed Grazing Intensity Options - 2007 For Archival Purposes Only
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