Download or read book Implementation of the Environmental Quality Incentives Program written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Agriculture. Subcommittee on Forestry, Resource Conservation, and Research and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Implementation of the Environmental Quality Incentives Program written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Agriculture. Subcommittee on Forestry, Resource Conservation, and Research and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Environmental Quality Incentive Program, commonly known as EQIP, was created in the 1996 farm bill as an effort to make our conservation dollars produce the most benefits possible by operating in a more efficient manner. The Congress and specifically this committee made a strong commitment to this goal by consolidating a few old conservation programs and making the funding consistent by picking up the tab. It is significant to note that the $200 million now spent annually on this program comes from the Commodity Credit Corporation. In essence, in the 1996 farm bill Congress committed a portion of the resources that have traditionally gone to farm income support programs to this conservation program"--Page 1.

Download or read book Environmental Assessment for the Implementation of the Environmental Quality Incentives Program in the Five States Grazing Emphasis Geographic Priority Area written by United States. Natural Resources Conservation Service and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Environmental Quality Incentives Program EQIP written by Carol Canada and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 6 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP) provides farmers with financial and technical assistance to plan and implement soil and water conservation practices. EQIP was enacted in 1996 and amended by the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 (Section 2301 of P.L. 107-171). It is a mandatory spending program (i.e., not subject to annual appropriations) administered by the Natural Resources Conservation Service. EQIP is guaranteed a total of $10.0 billion from FY2002 through FY2010 from the Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC), making it the largest conservation financial assistance program. 1 Issues about EQIP that Congress may explore as it starts to consider the next farm bill include (1) reducing the pending backlog of applications, (2) measuring the program's accomplishments, and (3) using EQIP to address specific topics or needs in specified locations. This report will be updated as circumstances warrant.

Download or read book Implementation Of The Environmental Quality Incentives Program Hearing No 105 45 Comm On Agriculture House Of Rep 105th Congress 2nd Session March 5 1998 written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Agriculture and published by . This book was released on 1998* with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Evaluating The Implementation of and Farmers Participation in the Environmental Quality Incentives Program written by Elsie Assan and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The negative environmental impacts of intensive agricultural production activities across the globe and specifically in the United States (US) is well known. Governments in affected countries including the US have instituted agri-environmental programs to address the negative environmental impacts of agriculture. At the US federal level, a suite of conservation programs referred to as Farm Bill conservation programs (e.g., Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP)) provide technical and financial assistance to farmers and other rural land managers in exchange for their voluntary adoption of best management practices (BMPs) to address resources concern resulting from agriculture. The planning, policy development, and implementation of these programs encourage partnerships among government-sponsored conservation agencies and other public-private conservation agencies as well as public participation at the federal, state, and local levels of decision-making. Partnerships and public participation in conservation program planning and implementation processes are encouraged since it helps to account for public concerns, increase understanding of resource concern priorities, increase acceptance of the resultant program, and improve the efficient use of program resources and achievement of program goals. However, there is limited research conducted to explore the extent of public participation in program planning and implementation as well as how farmers make decisions to either participate or not participate in these government-sponsored agri-environmental programs. Drawing on the environmental governance framework and the diffusion of innovation theory, this dissertation sought to evaluate the implementation of and farmers' participation in the Environmental Quality Incentives Program in Pennsylvania. This dissertation is built around three essays. The first essay utilizes data from interviews with conservation managers at federal, state, and local levels and program document analysis to explore the extent to which EQIP planning and implementation processes follow four concepts of environmental governance: adaptiveness, flexibility, and learning; knowledge co-production; acknowledgment of new actors and their roles; and accountability and legitimacy, at the federal, state, and local levels. The findings of the study show the presence of certain components of the four concepts in program planning and implementation processes, mainly because program decision-making processes and implementation practices are informed by congressional mandates and legislation. There is the participation of diverse stakeholders and conservation agencies in program processes at all three levels of decision-making and stakeholders play diverse roles in enhancing the achievement of program objectives. The essay also discusses the challenges identified and recommends strategies to enhance the governance of EQIP. The second essay reports the findings from interviews with conservation field staff at the local level regarding their perspectives on diverse stakeholder participation in EQIP planning and implementation practices at the local level, approaches and challenges to outreach, and barriers to EQIP implementation at the local level. The findings revealed a mixed perspective on the participation of diverse stakeholders in program processes. Further, the results showed that mostly government conservation agencies, their partners, and stakeholders work together and sometimes separately to conduct program outreach utilizing a variety of communication channels and delivery methods. The key outreach approach relied on by both government and non-government agencies is "word of mouth" to disseminate program information. The study findings indicate that farmer-related challenges (e.g., costs associated with program participation, anti-government sentiments, bureaucracy, and inadequate awareness about program existence and goals) and program-related challenges (e.g., staff capacity, attitude, and knowledge about agriculture, inadequate funding, bureaucracy, inflexible program rules, regulations, and internal policies, etc.) could hinder program implementation at the local level. The final essay utilizes both qualitative and quantitative data collected from three Pennsylvania counties within the Chesapeake Bay watershed to explore how farmers make decisions to participate in the Environmental Quality Incentives Program. It specifically examined farmers' familiarity with the program and perception of program fit to local farm management practices, farmers' sources of conservation program information, motivators of and barriers to program participation. The findings suggest that both EQIP participants and non-participants have differing levels of familiarity with the program and perceived the program as a good fit for addressing resources concern on the farm and off the farm. Further, EQIP participants and non-participants access program information from multiple sources including formal and informal sources. The findings also revealed program-related characteristics (e.g., cost share, environmental benefits, etc.) and personal reasons (e.g., environmental stewardship, social recognition for conservation efforts, etc.) as motivators for program participation. Self-autonomy and distrust of government conservation agencies, inadequate information on EQIP goals and benefits, religious reasons, and perceived limited knowledge of the heterogeneity of farms among conservation staff were some of the barriers to program participation. The essay also discusses how understanding the differences between the two groups of farmers can help conservation professionals enhance the participation of farmers in conservation programs. Taken together, the three essays highlight program governance issues that could be improved to enhance public participation, support, and buy-in for conservation programs. Overall, this dissertation findings could improve understanding of how national-level decisions about natural resources conservation influence implementation decisions at the state and local level as well as farmer participation in EQIP. More generally the findings could enable states in the northeast region, particularly, Pennsylvania to secure conservation gains and enhance farmer participation in conservation programs such as EQIP over time.

Download or read book Environmental Quality Incentives Program EQIP written by Megan Stubbs and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: EQIP is the largest agriculture conservation program for working lands.3 The program encourages farmers and ranchers to participate in conservation efforts by paying a portion of the cost of installing or constructing approved conservation practices. [...] EQIP was amended and reauthorized in both the 2002 and 2008 farm bills.4 The U. S. Department of Agriculture's Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) administers EQIP under a final rule.5 NRCS implemented EQIP by establishing national priorities to reflect the most pressing natural resource needs and emphasize offsite benefits to the environment. [...] The FY2010 appropriations act (Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act of 2010, P. L. 111-80) limited EQIP to $1.18 billion for FY2010-a reduction of $270 million from the authorized level of $1.45 billion in the 2008 farm bill.11 For FY2011, the Administration has proposed a limit of $1.208 billion-a reduction of $380 million from the [...] As shown in Figure 1, the authorized funding level has continued to increase since the 2002 farm bill; however, annual appropriations acts have reduced the actual funding levels by a total of nearly $1.6 billion from FY2005 through FY2010.19 With the 111th Congress facing tighter budget constraints, similar cuts to EQIP could be considered either in the appropriations process or by the authorizing [...] Most of the concern about the child nutrition bill appears to revolve around the proposed reduction of EQIP funding to offset the bill's funding increases.

Download or read book Food Conservation and Energy Act of 2008 written by Erin Hicks and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 5 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP) is a voluntary program whereby the U.S. Department of Agriculture provides technical and financial assistance to active farmers and ranchers to address natural resource concerns such as soil conservation, water quality and quantity, nutrient management, and fish and wildlife habitat. The Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) is working with these landowners to maximize the environmental benefits gained for the expenditures made in the program. Funding has expanded significantly under the 2002 Farm Bill, with the amount of annual funding authorized reaching $1.3 billion by fiscal year 2007. The EQIP has been used to implement a wide variety of practices that are considered beneficial to many species of fish and wildlife. The NRCS is also beginning to use EQIP to address the needs of declining and other at-risk fish and wildlife species. Few data are available that document fish and wildlife response to EQIP. Program implementation to date is summarized, and recent information on planning of practices with the potential to benefit fish and wildlife resources is examined.

Download or read book Environmental Quality Incentive Program EQIP written by Megan Stubbs and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP) is a voluntary program that provides technical and financial assistance to eligible agricultural producers who wish to implement soil and water conservation practices. The purpose of EQIP is to promote agriculture production, forestry management, and environmental quality as compatible goals, and to optimize environmental benefits.

Download or read book Environmental Quality Incentives Program Us Natural Resources Conservation Service Regulation Nrcs 2018 Edition written by The Law The Law Library and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-11-14 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Environmental Quality Incentives Program (US Natural Resources Conservation Service Regulation) (NRCS) (2018 Edition) The Law Library presents the complete text of the Environmental Quality Incentives Program (US Natural Resources Conservation Service Regulation) (NRCS) (2018 Edition). Updated as of May 29, 2018 This interim final rule with request for comment amends the existing Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP) regulations to incorporate programmatic changes as authorized by amendments in the Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008 (2008 Act). This book contains: - The complete text of the Environmental Quality Incentives Program (US Natural Resources Conservation Service Regulation) (NRCS) (2018 Edition) - A table of contents with the page number of each section

Download or read book Environmental Quality Incentives Program EQIP written by Megan Stubbs and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 10 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Environmental Quality Incentives Program EQIP written by Charles Howard Ullery and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Demographics Motivations and Experiences of Producers Participating in the Environmental Quality Incentives Program and the Conservation Stewardship Program written by Anna Collins and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is a lack of understanding on the demographics, motivations, and experiences of producers that participate in the Natural Resource Conservation Service’s (NRCS) programs at a national scale. This study seeks to understand who is participating in the Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP) and the Conservation Stewardship Program (CSP), why they are participating, their satisfaction with the experience, and barriers that they may have encountered. Through a four step mailing process, a survey was conducted of producers with current contracts (through FY2015) in EQIP or CSP, with at least one of nine range related practices in all fifty states and territories. The results showed that there are several factors that motivate participation, including feelings of stewardship and profit. It also showed that participants in the program are fairly representative of the general agricultural population with the exception of operation size. It identified limited venues of introduction to the programs as potential barriers. Lastly, it shows that while overall satisfaction with the program is high, that understanding the program, technical assistance, and payments are all important contributors to that satisfaction.

Download or read book Environmental Quality Incentives Program written by Mike Duffy and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 2 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Flexible Conservation Measures on Working Land written by Andrea Cattaneo and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: