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Walking through the Intervale Community Center

Program Deadlines FY26

A comprehensive list of program dates for fiscal year 2026 (October 1, 2025 - September 30, 2026).

FY26 Program Deadlines

August
Looking up at a tree canopy in the fall.

August Program Application Deadlines

August 22, 2025:

October
The rugged landscape of Lamoille Canyon is softened by the warm autumn colors found in the Ruby Mountain Ranger District on the Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest in northeastern Nevada. USDA Photo by Susan Elliot.

November

  • October 10, 2025: General Agricultural Conservation Easement Program (ACEP) Sign Up (ALE , WRE, and RCPP US-Held Easements)
December
Farm in Winter

December Program Obligation Dates

February
Cows grazing in winter field.

February Program Application Deadlines

March
Aster Bekele, the founder of The Felege Hiywot Center in Indianapolis, Indiana, gives Jerod Chew, Indiana NRCS district conservationist, a tour of the center's high tunnel that was built in November 2020. The high tunnel was funded in part through the NRCS's Environmental Quality Incentives Program. (Indiana NRCS photo by Brandon O'Connor)

March Application Deadlines

May
red barn

May Program Obligation Dates

June
Grazing black and white Holstein dairy cattle.

June Program Obligation Dates

NRCS-VT Locally Led Conservation Delivery

The Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) and Natural Resources Conservation Districts (NRCDs) in Vermont are expanding their work with Vermont communities in  delivering technical and financial assistance through USDA Farm Bill programs. This process is an innovative approach to the Locally Led Conservation Delivery (LLCD) model. 

The LLCD model focuses on leveraging community feedback and partnerships and USDA funding to strategically invest federal dollars in local priority resource concerns to restore, conserve, and protect Vermont’s natural resources and working landscapes.  

NRCDs in Vermont have gathered feedback from Local Working Groups and crafted Conservation Action Plans and Locally Led Conservation Plans (LLCPs) outlining local resource concerns and goals, proposed solutions and actions, necessary funds and technical assistance, monitoring and evaluating methods, and an implementation timeline. 

Click below for a brief, summarized list of NRCD LLCPs for the state of Vermont. 

 

NRCS-VT Locally Led Conservation Delivery Executive Summary (296.44 KB)
Conservation Delivery Rollout, Fiscal Year 2026 (8.37 MB)