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NRCS Conservation Programs in Nebraska

Brad Soncksen

Assistant State Conservationist for

Programs

Lincoln, NE

[email protected]

www.ne.nrcs.usda.gov

USDA is an equal opportunity provider and employer.

Conservation Programs

• Land Treatment

• Stewardship

• Easement

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Land Treatment Programs

• Environmental Quality Incentive

Program – EQIP

• Wildlife Habitat Incentive Program –

WHIP

• Cooperative Conservation Cooperative

Initiative - CCPI

• Ag Water Enhancement Program -

AWEP

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Land Treatment Programs

• FY2013 Application Cutoff

• First: December 21, 2012

• Second: February 15, 2013

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Environmental Quality Incentives Program

•Provides assistance to farmers and

ranchers who face threats to soil, water,

air, and related natural resource concerns

on agricultural land including:

- Cropland

- Grazing lands

- Wetlands

- Wildlife

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EQIP Fund Allocation in 2013

General

• $ 25 Million

EQIP 2013 Practices

• Waste Storage Facilities

• Grazing Management

• Ponds

• Pipelines

• Fence

EQIP 2013 Practices

Brush Management

Prescribed Burn

EQIP 2013 Practices

SDI Systems

Sprinkler Systems

IWM

EQIP 2013 Practices • Terraces

• Diversions

• Grade Stabs

• Waterways

• Underground Outlet

• No till

• Windbreak/Shelterbelt

EQIP 2013 Practices Seasonal High

Tunnels

Nutrient Mgmt

Pest Mgmt

Cover Crops

Organic

FY2013 EQIP Fund Pools

• 8 Priority Resource Concerns

– 4 Local

– 4 Statewide

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Sheet and Rill, Ephemeral, Wind, Organic Matter Depletion -Local (Soil Erosion)

• 329 – Residue Management, No-Till

• 340 – Cover Crop

• 412 – Grassed Waterway

• 512 – Pasture and Hay Planting

• 600 – Terrace

• 620 – Underground Outlet 13

Inefficient Use of Irrigation Water -Local (Water Quality/Quantity) • 328 – Conservation Crop Rotation

• 430 – Irrigation Water Conveyance

• 441 – Micro Irrigation

• 442 – Irrigation System- Sprinkler

• 449 – Irrigation Water Management

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Undesirable Plant Productivity and Health, Inadequate Livestock Water-Local (Range/Pasture Mgmt)

• 338 – Prescribed Burning

• 382 – Fence

• 516 – Pipeline

• 528 – Prescribed Grazing

• 614 – Watering Facility

• 642 – Water Well 15

Excessive Plant Pest Pressure-Local (Invasive Species)

• 314 – Brush Management

• 666 – Forest Stand Improvement

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Excess Nutrients in Surface and Ground Water - State (Nutrient Management)

• 360 – Closure of Waste Impoundment

• 393 – Filter Strip

• 578 – Stream Crossing

• 590 – Nutrient Management

• 633 – Waste Utilization

• 638 – Water and Sediment Control

Basin 17

Excess Pathogens and Chemicals from Manure, Bio-solids, or Compost - State (Livestock Waste)

• 313 – Waste Storage Facility

• 316 – Animal Mortality Facility

• 521 – Pond Sealing or Lining

• 632 – Solid – Liquid Waste Separation

• 634 – Manure Transfer

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Habitat Degradation - State (Wildlife)

• 390 – Riparian Herbaceous Cover

• 391 – Riparian Forest Buffer

• 644 – Wetland Wildlife Habitat Mgt.

• 645 – Upland Wildlife Habitat Mgt.

• 657 – Wetland Restoration

• 659 – Wetland Enhancement

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Inadequate Livestock Shelter - State (Forestry)

• 380 – Windbreak and Shelterbelt

Establishment

• 612 – Tree – Shrub Establishment

• 650 – Windbreak and Shelterbelt

Renovation

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. EQIP Fund Allocations in 2013

– Local

•Soil Erosion = $ 3.1 million

•Range/Pasture = $ 6.7 million

•Water Quality/Quantity = $ 2.0 million

•Invasive Species = $ 800,000

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– State

•Nutrient Management = $ 700,000

•Livestock Waste = $ 3.0 million

•Wildlife = $ 300,000

•Forestry = $ 500,000

FY2013 EQIP Fund Pools

• State Special Initiatives

• National Special Initiatives

• Beginning Farmer-Rancher/ HU

– 10% of Total allocation

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– State Special Initiatives

•Wildfire $ 1,500,000

•Tribal $ 100,000

•Frenchman Wtshd $ 130,000

•CAP $ 400,000

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. EQIP Fund Allocations in 2013 – National Special Initiatives

•Ogallala $ 4,000,000

•Organic $ 250,000

•High tunnel $ 200,000

•NWQI $ 1,153,840

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. EQIP Fund Applications in 2013

–Total Applications = 4000

–Total Estimated Cost = $ 70 million

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– Local

•Soil Erosion = $ 9.7 million

•Range/Pasture = $ 15.5 million

•Water Quality/Quantity = $ 10.0 million

•Invasive Species = $ 4.9 million

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– State

•Nutrient Management = $ 124,000

•Livestock Waste = $ 3.7 million

•Wildlife = $ 670,000

•Forestry = $ 521,000

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. EQIP Fund Applications in 2013 – State Special Initiatives

•Wildfire $ 1,500,000

•Tribal $ 38,000

•Frenchman Wtshd $ 130,000

•CAP $ 150,000

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. EQIP Fund Applications in 2013 – National Special Initiatives

•Ogallala $ 10 million

•Organic $ 250,000

•High tunnel $ 200,000

•NWQI $ 1,153,840

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Ogallala Aquifer Initiative

Wyoming

South Dakota

Nebraska

Colorado

Kansas

Oklahoma

New Mexico

Texas

Lea

Cherry

Eddy

Chaves

Weld

Union

Albany

Holt

Quay

Baca

Converse

Yuma

Las Animas

Custer

Sioux

Platte

Lincoln

Lincoln

Texas

Larimer

Laramie

Bent

Tripp

Ellis

Elbert

Niobrara

Logan

Kiowa

Goshen

Todd

Guadalupe

De Baca

Sheridan

Harding

Beaver

Curry

Roosevelt

Reno

Ford

Shannon

Garden

Ellis

Morrill

Knox

Ness

Hale

Gaines

Keith

Dallam

Washington

Gove

Dawes

Rock

Kit Carson

Jackson

Prowers

Hartley

Cimarron

Gray

Finney

Clark

Oldham

Brown

Lynn

Gray

FloydLamb

Cheyenne Logan

Terry

Andrews

Rice

Barber

Gage

Mellette

Trego

Smith

Garza

Pratt

Potter

Sumner

Bennett

Harper

Jewell

Motley

Rooks

Lane

Dewey

Meade

Ector

Chase

Hall

Moore

Rush

Martin

Dundy

Scott

Grant

Rawlins

Castro

Marion

Buffalo

Bailey

Clay

Barton

Donley

Thomas

Deaf Smith

Carson

Crosby

York

Gregory

Kimball

PhillipsNorton

Dawson

Cedar

Borden

Kearny

Frontier

Randall

BriscoeParmer

Perkins

Platte

Kiowa

Cheyenne

Roberts

Wallace

Burt

Sherman

Blaine

Hayes

Harper

Dickens

Howard

Woodward

Loup

Hockley

Swisher

Graham

Decatur

Arthur

Dawson

Hamilton

Wheeler

Box Butte

Boyd

Boone

Lubbock

Polk

Sedgwick

Furnas

Banner

Roger Mills

Hemphill

Grant

Sherman

Cheyenne

Morton

Ochiltree

Greeley

Winkler

Hansford

Sheridan

Hooker

Yoakum

Stafford

Phillips

Lipscomb

Beckham

Kingman

Butler

Valley

Pawnee

Wichita

Saline

Pierce

Cochran

Logan

Stevens

Midland

Thomas

Harlan

Stanton

Seward

Republic

Dodge

Adams

Thayer

Phelps

Saunders

Haskell

Ellsworth

Hodgeman

McPherson

Seward

Harvey

Deuel

Cuming

Greeley

Keya Paha

Howard

Hitchcock

Garfield

Edwards

Franklin

Fillmore

Nance

Glasscock

WayneScotts Bluff

Sedgwick

Antelope

Armstrong

Dixon

McPherson

Hutchinson

Comanche

WebsterNuckolls

MadisonWheeler

Collingsworth

Colfax

Merrick

Gosper

Red Willow

Sherman

Kearney

Jefferson

Hamilton

Stanton

Thurston

Sarpy

Douglas

Washington

Ogallala Aquifer InitiativeStates & Counties

Map Date: December 2010By: K. Klenke

Natural ResourcesConservation Service

Ogallala Aquifer

0 50 10025

Miles

/

State Boundary County Boundary

Ogallala Initiative by NRCS Administrative Area

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AWEP Partnership Agreements

FY2012 & FY2013

• No RFP

FY2011 – Expire 2015

• Upper Republican NRD

FY2010 – Expire 2014

• Lower Republican NRD

• Ogallala – Platte River Recovery

• Upper Big Blue NRD

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AWEP Partnership Agreements

FY2009

• Middle Republican NRD – Expire 2013

• Central NE Public Power and Irrigation

District – Expire 2013

• Little Blue NRD (Expired)

• Lower Big Blue NRD (Expired)

• Lower Platte North NRD – Expire 2013

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AWEP Fund Allocations in 2013

Total Allocation = $3.9 million

• CNPPID = $ 210,800

• LPNNRD = $ 298,520

• MRNRD = $339,592

• UBBNRD = $688,520

• Platte River = $1,360,000

• LRNRD = $135,897

• URNRD = $844,560

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Wildlife Habitat Incentives Program (WHIP)

WHIP Fiscal Year 2013

• Working Lands for Wildlife

– Black Footed Ferret

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Cooperative Conservation Partnership Initiative

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2013 Cooperative Conservation Partnership Initiative - Nebraska

• 2 Projects in FY2013

–Shelterbelt Renovation = $ 31,705

–Riparian Forest Buffer = $ 40,297

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STEWARDSHIP PROGRAMS

Conservation Security Program

Conservation Stewardship Program

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Conservation Security Program CSP from 2004 - 2008

Conservation Security Program

• 4 signups in 24 NE counties

• Total Contracts = 2021

• Current Active contracts = 770

• 5 – 10 year contracts

• Acres in Contracts = 818,858

• FY13 Payments = $5,255,495

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Stewardship Programs

• FY2013 Applications

• Continuous signup

• Decision pending on FY13 enrollment

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• Total Contracts = 2113

• Total Acres = 4,030,530

• FY2013 Payments = $42,488,296

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Cherry

Holt

Custer

Sioux

Lincoln

Sheridan

Garden

Morrill

Knox

Keith

Dawes

RockBrown

Gage

Chase

Hall

Dundy

Grant

Buffalo

Clay

York

Kimball

Otoe

Dawson

Cedar

Frontier

PerkinsCass

Platte

Cheyenne

Burt

Hayes

Blaine Loup

Arthur

Box Butte

Boyd

Boone

Polk

Furnas

Banner

Hooker

Butler

Valley

Antelope

Saline

Pierce

Logan

Thomas

Lancaster

Harlan

Dixon

Dodge

Adams

Thayer

Phelps

Saunders

McPherson

Seward

Deuel

Cuming

Greeley

Keya Paha

Hitchcock

Howard

Garfield

Franklin

Fillmore

Nance

WebsterNuckolls

MadisonWheeler

Colfax

Merrick

Wayne

Gosper

Scotts Bluff

Red Willow

Sherman

Kearney

Jefferson

Hamilton

Pawnee

Stanton

Richardson

NemahaJohnson

Thurston

Sarpy

Douglas

Dakota

Washington

121,945

83,426

123,461 549,237

19,822 18,348

38,98234,601

6,983 2,830

58,868

2,173

40,3962,920

9,27713,845 8,575

8,988

9,07363,386

72,593

189,050 118,346

46,583

112,481 114,320 133,668 70,620 16,375 14,126 25,4899,002

78,2934,60632,397 104,854 92,496

34,135

7,469 3,273 14,6709,934 24,176

1,104

80,32646,445 4,942

17,862

83,977

19,310 2713,413 8,320

20,494

969238

1,100

2,300

7,878

28,77155,920

5,955 8,081 8,94811,803 6,185

49,845

81,447 39,384 25,75839,472

91,

176 119,132 7,37541,580 9,993 11,820 28,391

59,890

43,167

8,366

22,611 8,415 26,699 137,089 17,120 17,120 15,357 48,986 11,822 27,6528,315

23,098


All Acres

Natural ResourcesConservation Service Map Date: 9/2012

By: K. Klenke

Acres

189,051 - 549,23734,602 - 63,386

63,387 - 104,854

104,855 - 189,050

238 - 6,983

6,984 - 18,348

18,349 - 34,601

Cherry

Holt

Custer

Sioux

Lincoln

Sheridan

Garden

Morrill

Knox

Keith

Dawes

RockBrown

Gage

Chase

Hall

Dundy

Grant

Buffalo

Clay

York

Kimball

Otoe

Dawson

Cedar

Frontier

PerkinsCass

Platte

Cheyenne

Burt

Hayes

Blaine Loup

Arthur

Box Butte

Boyd

Boone

Polk

Furnas

Banner

Hooker

Butler

Valley

Antelope

Saline

Pierce

Logan

Thomas

Lancaster

Harlan

Dixon

Dodge

Adams

Thayer

Phelps

Saunders

McPherson

Seward

Deuel

Cuming

Greeley

Keya Paha

Hitchcock

Howard

Garfield

Franklin

Fillmore

Nance

WebsterNuckolls

MadisonWheeler

Colfax

Merrick

Wayne

Gosper

Scotts Bluff

Red Willow

Sherman

Kearney

Jefferson

Hamilton

Pawnee

Stanton

Richardson

NemahaJohnson

Thurston

Sarpy

Douglas

Dakota

Washington

25

34

32 97

5 8

1710

15 7

65

13 4

1322 13

187 11

20

34 34

9

28 31 42 16 24 20 2713

2171 21

13

18

4 6 25 12 231

3020 97

1627 52 7

131

31

7

1117 36

8 5 2212 1659

26 15 12 5465 121 635 15 19 57

7585

1611 9 16 78 11 11 26 55 23 37

19 40


All Active Contracts


By: K. Klenke

Contracts

1 - 11 12 - 24 25 - 42 43 - 121

Cherry

Holt

Custer

Sioux

Lincoln

Sheridan

Garden

Morrill

Knox

Keith

Dawes

RockBrown

Gage

Chase

Hall

Dundy

Grant

Buffalo

Clay

York

Kimball

Otoe

Dawson

Cedar

Frontier

PerkinsCass

Platte

Cheyenne

Burt

Hayes

Blaine Loup

Arthur

Box Butte

Boyd

Boone

Polk

Furnas

Banner

Hooker

Butler

Valley

Antelope

Saline

Pierce

Logan

Thomas

Lancaster

Harlan

Dixon

Dodge

Adams

Thayer

Phelps

Saunders

McPherson

Seward

Deuel

Cuming

Greeley

Keya Paha

Hitchcock

Howard

Garfield

Franklin

Fillmore

Nance

Webster Nuckolls

MadisonWheeler

Colfax

Merrick

Wayne

Gosper

Scotts Bluff

Red Willow

Sherman

Kearney

Jefferson

Hamilton

Pawnee

Stanton

Richardson

NemahaJohnson

Thurston

Sarpy

Douglas

Dakota

Washington

Area 1212

703,641 Acres

Area 2405

1,597,164 Acres

Area 5164

564,671 Acres

Area 3604

673,507 Acres

Area 4698

452,801 Acres

Date: September 2012By: K. Klenke

Conservation Stewardship ProgramsContracts and Acres through 2012 by Ranking Areas

Natural ResourcesConservation Service

Ranking Areas: Area 1 Area 2 Area 3 Area 4 Area 5

2,083 ContractsTotal 3,991,784 Acres

Cherry

Holt

Custer

Sioux

Lincoln

Sheridan

Garden

Morrill

Knox

Keith

Dawes

RockBrown

Gage

Chase

Hall

Dundy

Grant

Buffalo

Clay

York

Kimball

Otoe

Dawson

Cedar

Frontier

PerkinsCass

Platte

Cheyenne

Burt

Hayes

Blaine Loup

Arthur

Box Butte

Boyd

Boone

Polk

Furnas

Banner

Hooker

Butler

Valley

Antelope

Saline

Pierce

Logan

Thomas

Lancaster

Harlan

Dixon

Dodge

Adams

Thayer

Phelps

Saunders

McPherson

Seward

Deuel

Cuming

Greeley

Keya Paha

Hitchcock

Howard

Garfield

Franklin

Fillmore

Nance

WebsterNuckolls

MadisonWheeler

Colfax

Merrick

Wayne

Gosper

Scotts Bluff

Red Willow

Sherman

Kearney

Jefferson

Hamilton

Pawnee

Stanton

Richardson

NemahaJohnson

Thurston

Sarpy

Douglas

Dakota

Washington

$569,302

$699,272

$948,808$3,081,486

$147,651 $119,172

$304,285$316,026

$73,734 $34,352

$216,238

$44,

006

$386,540$49,368

$214,512

$251,567 $170,

410

$272,386$102,331

$394,221

$451,555

$1,032,526 $841,235

$242,330

$854,741 $606,368 $990,225 $474,489 $371,304 $267,

912$524,455

$167,046$598,921

$147,828$40,000 $496,154 $470,643

$478,560

$82,850 $45,514 $346,537 $202,

775$511,598 $15,

305

$897,908$457,089 $101,518

$132,182

$283,114

$359,419 $5,098$36,390 $136,096

$542,125

$17,052$7,551

$18,754

$52,201

$227,829

$384,077$972,395

$60,858 $79,067 $216,031$274,075 $123,984

$257,959

$656,822 $370,603 $259,004$712,498$1,

360,331

$2,983,984 $175,630

$1,104,416 $203,281 $265,711 $650,901

$1,323,766

$973,953

$152,266

$172,650 $148,736 $398,922 $1,724,420 $427,621 $259,715 $264,805 $1,204,244

$301,946 $421,050$131,227 $366,348


Annual Contract Payments per County


By: K. Klenke

Payments

$5,098.00 - $316,026.00 $316,026.01 - $712,498.00 $712,498.01 - $1,724,420.00 $1,724,420.01 - $3,081,486.00

Easement Programs

• FY2013 Application Cutoff

• WRP and GRP: March 29, 2013

• Pending Fund Allocation

• FRPP: Continuous Signup

• Pending Fund Allocation

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Wetlands Reserve Program (WRP)

USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service 07/16/2012

Total Easement/Agreement Acres = 97,500

Total Easement/Agreement Numbers = 702

723 (9)

Keith

Dundy

Perkins

Sioux Dawes Sheridan

Box Butte

Scotts Bluff Morrill Garden

Banner

Kimball Cheyenne

Deuel

Hitchcock

Chase Hayes

Cherry Keya Paha

Brown Rock Holt

Blaine Loup Garfield Grant Hooker Thomas

Arthur McPherson Logan

Lincoln

Boyd

Knox Cedar

Wheeler

Antelope Pierce

Boone

Greeley

Madison

436 (3)

Wayne Dakota

2052(11) Thurston

Cuming Burt

Dodge

Douglas

Sarpy

Cass

Saunders Butler Polk

York Seward

Saline

Jefferson

Gage

Otoe

Johnso

n

Nemaha

Richardson Pawnee

Merrick

824.6(12)

Hamilton

Howard

Valley

Sherman

Buffalo Dawson

Hall

Adams Kearney Phelps

Furnas Harlan Franklin Webster

Clay Fillmore

Thayer

Nuckolls

Frontier

1604.3(9) Nance

Platte Colfax

Red Willow

Custer

4531.2

(9)

1704(26)

1125.1(10) 2017(29)

651.2 (7)

2878(25)

482 (5)

4651.6 (7)

665 (1) 4981.7(22) 7795(86)

1545(19)

447 (4)

357 (7) 4718(38)

3094 (19)

681(7) 1727.4(17) 475.1(10)

142 (3)

13533.7 (82)

272(6)

1276 (16)

1525(9)

1150 (5)

2161(26)

1593(7)

711(8)

558 (1) 271(4)

160 (1)

2769 (19)

1460 (7)

461 (2)

104 (1)

354 (6)

67 (1)

379(2)

2120 (8)

152(1) 378 (5)

1223(9)

462 (1)

191(5)

5487 (13)

146(1)

15 (1) 74(2)

382 (4)

1008 (7)

110(1)

221(4)

260 (1)

1541(6)

1277.5 (10)

191 (1)

111 (1)

2896(6)

340(4)

612(5)

502 (2)

60 (1)

73 (1)

45 (1)

(as of 07/16/2012)

2601(4)

135 (3)

34.4 (1)

157.4 (1)

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Wetlands Reserve Enhancement

Program

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• Current WREP Projects

– RWB Center Pivot

– RWB –Monitoring & Mgmt

– Missouri River Flood Recovery & Riverine Restoration (SD, NE, IA, MO, KS)

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Grasslands Reserve Program

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Farm and Ranch Lands Protection Program

FRPP Fiscal Year 2012

• Current list of entities utilizing FRPP:

– Nebraska Land Trust

– The Nature Conservancy

– The Sandhills Task Force

– Northern Prairies Land Trust

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• Local Work Groups

– Advisory to State Conservationist

– 23 in Nebraska

– Functions

Local Ranking Factors

Ranking Points

Natural Resources Areas of Concern

Practices


• Local Work Groups

FY14 State Technical Committee

• Subcommittee Meetings – July 2013

– EQIP/WHIP

– WRP/FRPP/GRP

– CSP

– Forestry

• StateTech Committee – August 2013

• Application Cutoff November 2013

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2012 Farm Bill (?)

• Streamlines & consolidates 23 Programs into 13

– ACEP – Agriculture Conservation Easement Program

– EQIP/WHIP

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Questions?

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