General EQIP Description

Environmental Quality Incentives Program Sign-ups Under Way

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 cost-share assistance for up to 75 percent of certain conservation practices.  Incentive payments can be offered to encourage producers to perform land management practices.

In 2004, North Dakota agricultural producers communicated their willingness to conserve natural resources on their private working lands.  Two thousand ten applicants requested technical and financial assistance from NRCS to complete conservation practices on their lands.  North Dakota NRCS was allocated approximately $15,250,000 to assist ag producers in achieving their conservation goals.  One thousand eighty seven applicants were successful in securing funding.

In 2005, North Dakota has received an initial allocation of $15,000,000 in financial assistance.

Signups are conducted at USDA Service Centers in North Dakota.

EQIP was reauthorized in the 2002 Farm Bill and is administered by the Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS).

• 2004 EQIP Accomplishments and Documents
• 2003 EQIP Accomplishments and Documents

• How EQIP Works in North Dakota

• North Dakota 2005 State EQIP Sign-up

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Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP) News Release New! (53.1 KB) Last Update: February 25, 2005

Jennifer C. Heglund
Phone: 701-530-2095
Email: jennifer.heglund@nd.usda.gov

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