The Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP) is a voluntary conservation program that promotes agricultural production and environmental quality as compatible National goals. Through EQIP, farmers and ranchers may receive financial and technical help to install or implement structural and management conservation practices on eligible agricultural land. EQIP was reauthorized in the Agriculture Improvement Act of 2018 (2018 Farm Bill). The Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) administers EQIP.
News Releases
Feb 11, 2021 Local meetings open to individuals interested in setting natural resources goals in Texas
Jan 7, 2021 NRCS Announces 2021 Deadline for Conservation Assistance Funding
Texas Ranking Criteria for NRCS Programs Fiscal Year 2020 and 2021
Priority Resource Concerns Web Application Fiscal Year 2021
EQIP applications are accepted on a continuous basis. Applications for State, National, and Locally Led financial assistance opportunities will be evaluated per the EQIP application deadlines below for Fiscal Year 2021.
- December 4, 2020- First Application Funding Deadline
- February 12, 2021- Second Application Funding Deadline
EQIP General Program Description
National Initiatives
- Air Quality Initiative
- Lesser Prairie-Chicken Initiative
- Longleaf Pine Initiative
- Monarch Butterfly
- National Water Quality Initiative - Lampasas River
- National Water Quality Initiative - Lake Lavon
- WaterSMART
State EQIP Initiatives
- AFO/CAFO
- Beginning Farmers and Ranchers
- Colorado River Fresh Water Mussels
- Conservation Activity Plans (CAP)
- Disaster Recovery (Funding will be offered based on the extent of an applicable natural disaster: Drought, Flood, Hurricane, Wildfire)
- Eagle Mountain Lake
- Fever Tick Eradication
- High Tunnel Systems
- On-Farm Energy
- Organic Transition
- Richland-Chambers Water Quality
- Shortleaf Pine
- Socially Disadvantaged Farmer or Rancher
- Sourcewater Protection
- StrikeForce Initiative
- University Lands
Locally Led Financial Assistance
Locally Led Conservation (Financial assistance offered at the Zone level to treat resource concerns through EQIP targeted by the Local Working Group (LWG)
For more information
For more information about EQIP, visit the National NRCS EQIP web page or contact your local field office.
Lori Ziehr, Assistant State Conservationist-Programs
Phone: 254-742-9881
