NRCS announces EQIP deadlines for applications

USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Service announced the application deadlines for the Environmental Quality Incentives Program in Washington will be earlier this year to account for a stronger focus on conservation planning.

The voluntary, technical and financial assistance program is designed to help improve irrigation efficiency, manage nutrient run-off and/or animal waste, improve the health of native plant communities, and reduce soil loss. In most instances, program participants pay for roughly half of the costs of the conservation measures or practices.

Producers and entities will ha...