General EQIP Description

The Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP) is a voluntary conservation program which offers farmers and ranchers a tool to address their natural resource concerns while achieving the most environmental benefits through locally developed priority areas and natural resource concerns. 

Eligibility for the program is limited to persons who are engaged in livestock or agricultural production.  EQIP provides practice payment incentives to encourage producers to implement structural, vegetative, and management practices.

In 2008, North Dakota agricultural producers communicated their willingness to conserve natural resources on their private working lands.  Over nineteen hundred producers requested technical and financial assistance from NRCS to complete conservation practices on their lands.  North Dakota was allocated $20,148,745 to assist ag producers in achieving their conservation goals.  Eight hundred forty one applicants were successful in securing funding.

EQIP applications are available at USDA Service Centers in North Dakota.

Archived EQIP Information

2009 EQIP in North Dakota

• How EQIP Works in North Dakota
• North Dakota 2009 Sign-up
• EQIP Flood Impaired Conservation Practices Sign-up

Program Contact

Jennifer C. Heglund
Assistant State Conservationist (Programs)
Phone: 701-530-2095
Email: jennifer.heglund@nd.usda.gov

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Last Modified: 05/15/2009