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| NEW ALLOCATION FOR FISCAL YEAR 2012 |
$22,125.96 |
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Practices scheduled for 2012 |
Estimated Cost | State funds allocated | Federal funds added to project | Balance |
| 1750 ft basins | $ 9,110.00 | $ 4,555.00 |
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50% |
| Balance to allocate | $ 17,570.96 | |||
Resource Enhancement And Protection
........................ REAP
Qualifications: Any Dallas
County landowner who raises an ag commodity. Windbreaks are exempt from this
requirement.
Qualifying conservation
practices: Farmstead Windbreaks, Tree Plantings, Conservation
Cover, Planned Grazing Systems, Timber Stand Improvement, and Rescue
Treatment.
Funds: Funds are made available on an annual
basis through the State of Iowa. We receive each year in July
approximately $1,800 from the REAP-Forestry fund, and approximately $7,000 from
the REAP-Programs fund. Most practices are funded at 75% cost share with
maximum limits.
| NEW REAP ALLOCATIONS FOR FISCAL YEAR 2012 | $9,905.52 | ||
| Practices scheduled for FY 2012 | Estimated Cost | Approved Cost Share | % of cost share |
| 1 windbreak | $608.00 | $456.00 | 75% |
| Balance to allocate | $9,449.52 | ||
Environmental Quality Incentive Program ...................... EQIP
Qualifications:
Farmland must lie in Dallas County.
Qualifying conservation practices: State wide
priorities are for livestock practices such as waste storage facilities,
compost facilities and pasture improvements. Dallas County priorities
include the state priorities along with cover crops, grassed
waterways, terraces, water and sediment control basins, high tunnels,
nutrient management, residue
management, and livestock exclusion from streams.
Funds:
These are Federal funds allocated on a
yearly basis. These funds are administered through the NRCS office.
Applications are taken year round and approved as funds become
available.
| Total EQIP paid for 2009 projects |
$ 108,372.41 |
| Total EQIP paid for 2010 projects |
$ 66,593.00 |
| Total EQIP paid for 2011 projects |
$122,989.36 |
| APPLICATION CUT OFF FOR 2012 FUNDING IS JANUARY 20th | |
NEW INCENTIVE FOR SUMMER CONSTRUCTION - $200 per acre paid to seed down construction area. Project must be constructed between June 15th & Oct. 15th.
Federal Conservation Programs
Conservation Reserve Program ........................................ CRP
The Conservation Reserve Program encourages
farmers to convert highly erodible cropland or other environmentally
sensitive acreage to vegetative cover, such as native grasses, wildlife
plantings, trees, filter strips, or riparian buffers. Farmers receive an
annual rental payment for the term of the multi-year contract. Cost
sharing is provided to establish the vegetative cover.
Wetland Reserve
Program.......................................................WRP
The Wetlands Reserve Program is a voluntary program
offering landowners the opportunity to protect, restore, and enhance
wetlands on their property. The USDA Natural Resources Conservation
Service (NRCS) provides technical and financial support to help
landowners with their wetland restoration efforts. The NRCS goal is to
achieve the greatest wetland functions and values, along with optimum
wildlife habitat, on every acre enrolled in the program. This program
offers landowners an opportunity to establish long-term conservation and
wildlife practices and protection.
Wetland Reserve Easement Program..................................WREP
In FY2011 a new approach to advertising and
soliciting General WREP proposals was used. This approach required State
Conservationists to advertise the WREP sign up opportunity and work with
partners to develop a joint proposal that would ultimately be submitted
by the State Conservationist. A total of six General WREP project
proposals were received proposing to enroll or restore and enhance 7,703
acres of habitat through a total request of $8,847,600 in funds spanning
FY11-FY14. The six proposals received were reviewed by a national
ranking team. The ranking scores and recommendations from both the
states and the national reviewers were compiled and projects ranked
accordingly. Five of the six applications were approved and two of the
five approvaled proposals were in Iowa.
Conservation Reserve Easement Program........................CREP
CREP is a state/federal initiative to develop
wetlands which are strategically located using advanced computer
technology and designed to remove nitrate from tile-drainage water from
cropland areas. Removal of nitrate from these waters helps protect
drinking water supplies and reduce hypoxia in the Gulf of Mexico.
Financial incentives are provided to private landowners to develop and
restore wetlands that intercept tile drainage from agricultural
watersheds. Landowners receive annual land payments for up to 15 years
and reimbursement for costs of wetland and buffer establishment.
Easements to maintain the wetlands and buffers are required for a
minimum of 30 years with permanent easements offered as well.
Wildlife Habitat Incentive
Program.........................................WHIP
The Wildlife Habitat Incentive Program (WHIP) is a
voluntary program for conservation-minded landowners who want to develop
and improve wildlife habitat on agricultural land, nonindustrial private
forest land, and Tribal land.
* Promote the restoration of declining or important
native fish & wildlife habitats.
* Protect, restore, develop or enhance fish & wildlife habitat to benefit
at-risk species.
* Reduce the impacts of invasive species on fish & wildlife habitats
* Protect, restore, develop or enhance declining or important aquatic
wildlife species habitats
* Protect, restore,
develop or enhance important migration and other movement corridors for
wildlife.
Emergency Wetland Program
.............................................. EWP
NRCS may purchase EWP easements on any floodplain lands that have
been impaired within the last 12 months or that have a history of
repeated flooding. Purchases are based upon established priorities.
Landowner applications for the program far exceed funding. NRCS
maintains a list of easement offers that meet basic eligibility criteria
at the time of application. These offers continue to be eligible pending
availability of funding.
Grassland Reserve Program
.....................................................GRP
The Grassland Reserve Program (GRP) is a voluntary conservation
program that emphasizes support for working grazing operations,
enhancement of plant and animal biodiversity, and protection of
grassland under threat of conversion to other uses.
Participants voluntarily limit future development and cropping uses of
the land while retaining the right to conduct common grazing practices
and operations related to the production of forage and seeding, subject
to certain restrictions during nesting seasons of bird species that are
in significant decline or are protected under Federal or State law. A
grazing management plan is required for participants.
Conservation
Stewardship Program ..........................................CSP
Conservation Stewardship Program (CSP) encourages land stewards to
improve their conservation performance by installing and adopting
additional activities, and improving, maintaining, and managing existing
activities on agricultural land and nonindustrial private forest land.
CSP offers participants
two possible types of payments:
1. Annual payment for installing and adopting additional activities, and
improving, maintaining, and managing
existing activities.
2. Supplemental payment for the adoption of resource-conserving crop
rotations.
Mississippi River Basin Healthy Watersheds Initiative.........MRBI
To improve the health of the Mississippi River Basin, NRCS and its
partners will help producers in selected watersheds voluntarily
implement conservation practices that avoid, control, and trap nutrient
runoff; improve wildlife habitat; and maintain agricultural
productivity.
In Dallas County, land located in the "Fanny's Branch" watershed has
funds available for conservation practices.