EQIP - MI Current Year Sign-Up Information

Useful information and documents about the current year EQIP sign-up in Michigan. Program applications are accepted on a continuous basis.

Michigan Water Source Pilot for Urban Farmers Factsheet (1.58 MB)

Payment Schedule for Michigan

Frequently asked questions about the Environmental Quality Incentives Program (207.72 KB)

How the EQIP program can be used to address resource concerns on cropland. (243.51 KB)

How livestock produces can benefit from EQIP (238.74 KB)

How EQIP can be utilized on private forestland. (258.43 KB)

How EQIP can be used to benefit wildlife (220.23 KB)

How EQIP can be used to benefit pollinators (226.13 KB)

Ranking Criteria for Fiscal Year 2025

Applications will be screened to quickly identify applications that would receive a high-ranking score based on the criteria established for a given ranking pool. This allows NRCS to streamline the evaluation process and identify applications that will maximize conservation benefits more efficiently.

High priority applications will be ranked and considered first. As funding allows, lower priority applications will be ranked and considered.

The following items will be considered in determining application priority:

• Applicants who failed to properly operate and maintain conservation practices or activities still within their lifespan and installed with program financial assistance.
• Applicants with a contract violation for reasons within their control. NRCS may not screen a producer as lower priority for a contract violation if NRCS has not taken appropriate contract administrative action to enforce the contract.
• Applicants who have had a previous contract terminated for reasons within their control

Fiscal Year 2025 Ranking Reports

Beginning Farmer (287.45 KB)

CIC Saginaw Bay (176.7 KB)

CIC St. Joseph River (171.21 KB)

CIC Wildlife (187.42 KB)

CIC WLEB (176.46 KB)

Cropland (247.5 KB)

Forestland (221.17 KB)

GLRI Nearshore Health (170.45 KB)

High Tunnel (201.37 KB)

Irrigation Water Source Initiative (174.27 KB)

Livestock Systems (222.79 KB)

NWQI (227.31 KB)

Pastureland (246.22 KB)

Socially Disadvantaged (287.3 KB)

Source Water Protection (227.58 KB)

Tribal (290.06 KB)

Wildlife (228.82 KB)

WLEB Initiative (235.61 KB)

Organic Transition Initiative

Organic Transition (173.89 KB)

OTI Beginning Farmer (174.41 KB)

OTI Socially Disadvantaged (174.27 KB)

ACT NOW

NRCS-Michigan will be utilizing ACT NOW to process conservation applications to deliver a conservation product faster. ACT NOW allows NRCS to immediately approve and obligate a ranked application in a designated ranking pool when an eligible application meets or exceeds a state-determined minimum ranking score. This means no longer having to wait for all applications to be reviewed and preapproved in a ranking pool.

Threshold Scores & Preapprovals
Applications that meet the designated minimum ranking threshold score for each fund pool will be preapproved in the Selection Applications Tool (SAT), pending fund availability in the fund pool allocation.

General Allocation Fund Pool Minimum Threshold Scores