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C.
Agriculture
4.
Conservation
Practices in Watershed
d.
Environmental
Quality Incentives Program (EQIP)
This program is another USDA program designed to help
farmers improve their livestock operations and implement conservation practices.
The EQIP contract ranges from one to ten years and provides farmers with
cost-shares to implement conservation practices.
The program provides cost-sharing to farmers of up to 75 percent of the
cost of conservation practices for up to three years to encourage farmers to
carry out management practices that may not otherwise be implemented without an
incentive. New farmers may be
eligible for cost shares up to 90 percent. Figure 50 summarizes the EQIP Contracts in the Darby Watershed between
1998 and 2001.
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Figure
50: EQIP Contracts 2001 - 2004
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2001
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2002
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2003
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2004
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County
|
Acres
|
Acres
|
Acres
|
Acres
|
|
Champaign
|
518
|
X
|
X
|
X
|
|
Franklin
|
67
|
0
|
0
|
42
|
|
Madison
|
1
|
X
|
X
|
X
|
|
Logan
|
0
|
0
|
0
|
0
|
|
Pickaway
|
0
|
0
|
72.2
|
233.7
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Union
|
0
|
1
|
0
|
0
|
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Totals
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585
|
1
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72.2
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275.7
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X
– No data submitted
Source: NRCS, 2001, 2005
  
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