The following was reprinted in the Mountaineer:

The USDA Natural Resource Conservation Service is now accepting applications for the Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP) for Haywood County landowners to install practices that improve water quality on agricultural operations.

This program is being offered through the United States Department of Agriculture, Farm Bill programs.
Interested farmers should stop by the USDA office located at 589 Raccoon Road, Suite 203, Waynesville, NC 28786 by Oct. 14, 2011, 4 p.m. to submit an application.

Cost share practices include watering tanks, fencing, streambank stabilization, pastureland improvement, sediment control on agriculture lands, agri-chemical buildings, forest stand improvement and many more.

Cost share assistance for contracts will pay a percentage for actual costs of installation of projects.
For more information, contact Kara M. Cassels, district conservationist at 452-2741 x 3 or email at [email protected].

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