Funding Categories
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Descriptions
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Next Submission
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Supporting Documents
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Cropland
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This category addresses soil erosion and water quality resource concerns on cropland and adjacent incidental areas and managed on a regional basis.
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Forestry
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This category assists producers with non-industrial private forest land address resource concerns on land used for producing forest-related products.
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Pasture Operations
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This category assists producers that have a pasture operation to address natural resource concerns related to the growing, raising, or reproducing of livestock.
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This category assists producers with confined livestock to address resource concerns related to the storage, treatment, and management of animal waste.
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Wildlife Habitat Conservation
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This category promotes habitat conservation for at-risk wildlife species, including restoring, developing, or enhancing wildlife habitat.
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This category assists eligible producers implement conservation practices to address habitat loss without taking land out of production. Thirty southern Ohio counties eligible (see map)
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This category assists producers to extend the growing season, improve plant and soil quality, reduce nutrient and pesticide transportation, improve air quality through reduced transportation inputs, and reduce energy use by providing consumers with a local source of fresh produce.
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Practices
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Resource Concerns
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This category assists producers identify ways to reduce energy use on their farms and to implement various recommended measures using conservation practices that address inefficient use of on-farm energy. A screening tool is required to be ranked in this category. This initiative only offers assistance for 128 Conservation Activity Plans-Ag Energy Management Plans (AgEMPs) and certain energy conservation practices.
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This category assists organic producers implement a broad set of conservation practices to address resource concerns. A screening tool is required to be ranked in this category. This initiative is further divided to rank certified organic operations and transitioning to organic operations separately. Producers exempt from certification are considered under the transitioning category.
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Honey Bee Pollinator
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This category assists producers increase honey bee habitat. The honey bee pollinator effort will provide floral forage habitats to benefit hive nutritional health as part of an overall effort to increase the health of honey bees.
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Screening Worksheet
Resource Concerns
Payment Schedule
News Release
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Monarch Butterfly Habitat Development Project
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This category assists producers increase monarch butterfly habitat. Planting milkweed and nectar-rich plants not only benefit butterflies, they also strengthen agricultural operations and support other beneficial insects and wildlife.
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Screening Worksheet
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News Release
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Beginning Farmer and Rancher
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This fund category is for applicants meeting the definition of Beginning Farmer/Rancher or Veteran Farmer/Ranchers who also meet the Beginning Farmer/Rancher definition.
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Limited Resource Farmer
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This category assists limited resource producers address resource concerns.
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Socially Disadvantaged Producer
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This category assists socially disadvantaged producers address resource concerns.
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A Conservation Activity Plan (CAP) developed by a non-NRCS individual or entity identifies conservation practices needed to address a specific natural resource need, typically for land transitioning to organic production, grazing land, or forest land, or for specific resource needs such as nutrient management.
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Practices
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GLRI protects and restores watersheds to combat invasive species, protect watersheds and shorelines, reduce non-point source pollution, and restore wetlands and other habitat areas. This GLRI project is for producers in Ohio’s Western Lake Erie Basin (WLEB) in the following sub-watershed: Blanchard, Lower Maumee, Upper Auglaize, Cedar-Portage, Sandusky, St. Marys, Ottawa, St. Joseph, Tiffin, and Upper Maumee.
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Regional Conservation Partnership Program (RCPP)
2014 Farm Bill Projects |
Tri-State Western Lake Erie Basin Phosphorus Reduction Initiative
A diverse team of partners will use a targeted approach to identify high-priority sub-watersheds for phosphorus reduction and increase farmer access to public and private technical assistance—including innovative demonstrations of practices that NRCS does not yet cover—in Michigan, Ohio, and Indiana. Identified actions are coordinated with the Ohio Phosphorus Task Force Report and will move Lake Erie toward goals developed in the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement Annex 4 Nutrient Strategies. The partners will gauge success and monitor results using project-wide water quality monitoring and watershed modeling conducted by national experts from multiple scientific entities and institutions.
Cerulean Warbler Appalachian Forestland Enhancement
To address habitat loss, soil health, and water quality, the project will focus on suites of conservation practices intended to enhance acres of forest habitat on private lands for cerulean warblers, an at-risk species, and associated species. The Nature Conservancy has committed to enrolling additional acres into easements, and the American Chestnut Foundation, the Appalachian Regional Reforestation Initiative, and Green Forests Work will reforest acres of reclaimed mine lands to biodiverse forest.
Clear Creek
This innovative project will implement a series of agricultural best management practices to protect water quality, improve soil health and provide habitat for at risk species in the Clear Creek Watershed. It will also help protect the City of Hillsboro’s drinking water supply and provide prescribed habitat for Ohio’s diminished Bobwhite Quail population and native pollinators. Project goals for conservation practices include the installation of 3,000 acres of cover crops, 3,000 acres of nutrient management, 6 acres of grassed waterways, and certain prescribed wildlife management practices that improve habitat for targeted species. Implementation of BMPs will be prioritized upstream of the City of Hillsboro’s drinking water intake and within the wildlife focus area for Bobwhite Quail.
Spotted Knapweed Treatment for Ohio Producers (STOP) -
The STOP project will focus on the treatment and control of spotted knapweed and other invasive species in four Appalachian counties in southeastern Ohio: Guernsey, Morgan, Muskingum and Noble. These counties have each experienced an exponential spread of the spotted knapweed in privately owned pastures and hay land in recent years. Through the STOP project, producers will receive technical and financial assistance to help plan and implement conservation measures to pastures and permanent hay land to improve their grazing and hay land operations and lead to cleaner water, cleaner air, healthier soils, and better wildlife habitat.
Cleveland Forestry - Coming Soon
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