| EQIP eligible practices cost-shared at 50% |
| Practice Code |
Practice Name |
Unit |
| 560 |
Access Road |
ft |
| 702 |
Agrichemical Handling Facility |
no |
| 316 |
Animal Mortality Facility |
no |
| 360 |
Closure of Waste Impoundments |
no |
| 317 |
Composting Facility |
no |
| 327 |
Conservation Cover |
ac |
| 656 |
Constructed Wetland |
ac |
| 332 |
Contour Buffer Strip |
ac |
| 342 |
Critical Area Planting |
ac |
| 356 |
Dike1 |
ft |
| 362 |
Diversion |
ft |
| 712 |
Drafting Basin |
ac |
| 432 |
Dry Hydrants |
no |
| 382 |
Fence |
ft |
| 386 |
Field Borders |
ft |
| 393 |
Filter Strip |
ac |
| 394 |
Firebreaks |
ft |
| 666 |
Forest Stand Improvement |
ac |
| 655 |
Forest Trails and Landings |
ac |
| 410 |
Grade Stabilization Structure |
no |
| 561 |
Heavy Use Area Protection |
ac |
| 422 |
Hedgerow Planting |
ft |
| 442 |
Irrigation System, Sprinkler2 |
no & ac |
| 430DD |
Irrigation Water Conveyance, High Pressure, Underground,
Plastic Pipeline2 |
ft |
| 430EE |
Irrigation Water Conveyance, Low Pressure, Underground,
Plastic Pipeline2 |
ft |
| 430AA |
Irrigation Water Conveyance, Pipeline, Aluminum Tubing2 |
ft |
| 773 |
Land Reconstruction, Brine Damaged Areas3 |
ac |
| 468 |
Lined Waterway or Outlet |
ft |
| 634 |
Manure Transfer |
no |
| 457 |
Mine Shaft & Adit Closing4 |
no |
| 484 |
Mulching |
ac |
| 582 |
Open Channel5 |
ft |
| 512 |
Pasture and Hayland Planting |
ac |
| 516 |
Pipeline |
ft |
| 378 |
Pond6 |
no |
| 521C |
Pond Sealing or Lining, Bentonite7 |
no |
| 521A |
Pond Sealing or Lining, Flexible Membrane7 |
no |
| 521B |
Pond Sealing or Lining, Soil Dispersant7 |
no |
| 647 |
Prescribed Burning8 |
ac |
| 533 |
Pumping Plant for Water Control9 |
no |
| 643 |
Restoration & Management of Declining Habitat |
ac |
| 391 |
Riparian Forest Buffer |
ac |
| 558 |
Roof Runoff Management |
no |
| 350 |
Sediment Basin |
no |
| 646 |
Shallow Water Areas for Wildlife |
ac |
| 574 |
Spring Development |
no |
| 584 |
Stream Channel Stabilization |
ft |
| 578 |
Stream Crossing |
no |
| 395 |
Stream Habitat Improvement and Management |
ft |
| 580 |
Streambank & Shoreline Protection10 |
ft |
| 585 |
Stripcropping, Contour |
ac |
| 587 |
Structure For Water Control |
no |
| 606 |
Subsurface Drain11 |
ft |
| 607 |
Surface Drainage, Field Ditch12 |
ft |
| 600 |
Terrace |
ft |
| 612 |
Tree & Shrub Establishment |
ac |
| 660 |
Tree/Shrub Pruning |
ac |
| 620 |
Underground Outlet |
ft |
| 645 |
Upland Wildlife Habitat Management |
ac |
| 313 |
Waste Storage Facility13 |
no |
| 359 |
Waste Treatment Lagoon |
no |
| 635 |
Wastewater Treatment Strip |
ac |
| 638 |
Water & Sediment Control Basin14 |
no |
| 642 |
Water Well15 |
no |
| 614 |
Watering Facility |
no |
| 351 |
Well Decommissioning |
no |
| 659 |
Wetland Enhancement |
ac |
| 657 |
Wetland Restoration |
ac |
| 648 |
Wildlife Watering Facility |
no |
| 380 |
Windbreak/Shelterbelt Establishment |
ft |
| 650 |
Windbreak/Shelterbelt Renovation |
ft |
| 1
Cost share for this practice is available only if used as a component of
wetland restoration or enhancement. |
| 2
Cost shared only as a component of a waste storage facility, manure transfer
or to address a water quality resource concern for an existing irrigation
system. |
| 3
Cost share does not include removal of brine damaged soils. |
| 4
Cost shared only for bat habitat. |
| 5
Cost shared only as an outlet for another EQIP practice. |
| 6
Cost shared only for livestock watering. |
| 7
Cost shared only for livestock watering or waste storage. |
| 8
This practice is capped at 25 acres per tract. |
| 9
Cost shared only for livestock water or wetland control. |
| 10
This practice must be installed in conjunction with a Riparian Forest
Buffer to be eligible for cost share. |
| 11
Cost shared only as a component of another EQIP cost shared practice. |
| 12
Cost shared only as a component of another EQIP cost shared practice. |
| 13
If the storage facility is for a new operation or the expansion of more than
20% of the existing animal units, the cost share rate is 20%. A
Comprehensive Nutrient Management Plan is required to be eligible for cost
share for this practice (313). If cost share is requested for a waste
storage facility at a site that has no animals but will be collecting and
storing manure from another farm, then in order to be eligible the farmer
must have a contract to receive manure at the site for
the length of the EQIP contract. |
| 14
Water & Sediment Control Basin (638) and component practice Underground
Outlet (620) will be cost shared at 50% if the following four conditions are
met: 1) Practices 590 (Nutrient Management) and 595 (Pest Management) must
already be implemented or implemented within a year of the structure is built.
2) Fields within the watershed of the structure must be managed to "T", or
practices must be installed in the year the structure is built that bring
the soil loss to "T". 3) A grass filter strip with a 66 ft. radius
around the inlet will be required. This practice may be cost shared
also. 4) All conditions apply within the entire drainage area of the
WASCOB, whether on the applicant's land or adjacent land. If these
conditions are not met, practice 638 and component practices will not be
cost shared. |
| 15
Cost share only for livestock watering |
| Practices Eligible for Incentive Payments |
| Incentive payments may be paid up to 3
years. Exceptions are noted. Producers may only receive
incentive payments for no-till, nutrient management, and pest management one
time. For example, producers who have received an incentive for
nutrient management in a previous contract are not eligible to apply for
nutrient management on additional tracts. The purpose of an incentive
payment is to enable a trial period for an on-farm management change to
achieve a desired environmental outcome. |
| Practice Code |
Practice Name |
Unit |
| |
Comprehensive Nutrient Management Plan |
ac |
| A one time incentive payment of $1,000.00 per
CNMP implemented, to implement a CNMP. |
| 328 |
Conservation Cropping Rotation |
ac |
| Incentive payment of $50/acre per year for cropland that is being converted to organic farming.
Organic farming must meet the established USDA definition of organic
farming. The incentive is capped at $5,000.00 per applicant per year. |
| 340 |
Cover and Green Manure Crop |
ac |
| An incentive of $10/acre will be paid
for a maximum of 3 years over the life of the EQIP contract.
Management will be according to practice standard. The incentive is
capped at $2,500.00 per applicant per year. |
| 589C |
Cross Wind Trap Strips |
ac |
| Minimum strip width is 15 feet.
Must establish a permanent warm season grass trap strip for one time payment
of $200 per acre. Practice must be maintained for the life of the
contract. |
| 554 |
Drain Water Management |
ac |
| An incentive payment of $40/acre
per year for up to 3 years on acres being managed. Incentive payments
for this practice are capped at $2000.00 per applicant per year. |
| 647 |
Early Successional Habitat Development - Management |
ac |
| A $5/acre incentive per year for land
managed by strip mowing. A $10/acre incentive per year for
land managed by strip disking, strip spraying and prescribed burning. One time $50/acre per tract payment for woodland edge
feathering. Maximum of 100 acres of any combination. |
| 449 |
Irrigation Water Management |
ac |
| Incentive payment of $3/ac for land
under irrigation. Management must decrease non-point source
pollution of surface or ground water resources. Incentive provided
only for existing irrigation systems. Incentive payments for this
practice are capped at $300.00 per applicant per year. |
| 590 |
Nutrient Management |
ac |
| A
$5/acre incentive payment may be paid for up to 3 years.
Eligible land must not currently be under a nutrient management plan.
Incentive payments for this practice are capped at $1,250.00 per applicant
per year. Clients may receive the nutrient management
incentive only once. Incentive payments for Nutrient Management (590)
and Waste Utilization (633) can not be received on the same acres in the
same contract year. |
| 595 |
Pest Management |
ac |
| An incentive payment of $4/acre for up to
three years per tract. Eligible land must not currently be under a
pest management plan. Incentive payments for this practice are capped
at $1,000.00 per applicant per year. Clients may
receive the pest management incentive only once. |
| 528 |
Prescribed Grazing |
ac |
| Incentive payment of $10/acre for
up to three years. Incentive payment is made during the
first 3 years of the contract. Cost share payments will also be
available for other practices required as part of the plan. Incentive
payments for this practice are capped at $1,250.00 per applicant per year. |
| 329A |
Residue Management - No-till/Strip-till |
ac |
| Incentive payment of up to
$10/acre for up to 3 years. This practice must be applied to the same acres
all 3 years in which the incentive payments are made. Incentive payments for
this practice are capped at a total of $2,500 per applicant per year.
Applicant must have no-tilled for less than 5 consecutive years in order to be eligible. The rotation for the contract period
must include at least one year of no-till corn. A tract that qualifies for
no-till must also implement nutrient management (590) and pest management
(595). Nutrient and pest management must be implemented the fall prior to
the implementation of no-till. This action is taken for the purpose of
addressing issues that may limit the success of no-till implementation.
Incentive payments will be provided for these practices as well. Applicants
will be encouraged to attend an NRCS approved no-till training workshop. |
| 472 |
Use Exclusion |
ac |
| Incentive payment of $250/acre for
excluding livestock from
streams or wetlands or
woodlands (10 acres protected maximum). Area protected is composed of minimum 30 ft distance to
water in the case of streams, measured from barrier to waters edge.
In the case of wetlands, the area protected is the portion of wetland
protected by exclusion present on the tract. Incentive to be used
for livestock exclusion only, livestock must be present in protected area
to qualify. |
| 633 |
Waste Utilization (Soil Test < 50 ppm) |
ac |
| Crop fields where animal wastes
are being utilized: a $30/acre incentive payment may be paid for up to
3 years. The applicant can be the person whose farm is generating the waste
or the person receiving the waste. The applicant must have control of the
fields that are to receive the waste during the contract. Eligible land must
not currently be under a nutrient management plan. The incentive is capped
at $7,500 per applicant per year. The criteria for the incentive is tied to
the fields that will receive the manure. Only fields with a soil test
phosphorus level of <50 ppm (100 lbs) per are will be eligible. Pre
sidedress nitrate test (PSNT) must be completed on land receiving manure.
Soil test must have been completed within the last 4 years to be valid. The
number of acres necessary for manure application should be based on the IDEM
"Manure Application Land Requirements." Incentive payments for Nutrient
Management (590) and Waste Utilization (633) can not be received on the same
acres in the same contract year. |
| 644 |
Wetland Wildlife Habitat Management |
ac |
| Incentive payment of $20/acre per
tract per year to manage area for wetland wildlife. Practices
installed under this contract will be cost shared at rates established for
practices installed. Maximum of 25 acres per applicant per year. |
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