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Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP)
Grant Program Website:
http://www.nrcs.usda.gov/wps/portal/nrcs/main/md/programs/financial/eqip/Support Agency:
Program Contact:
Maryland Natural Resource Conservation Service
USDA-Natural Resources Conservation Service
John Hanson Business Center
339 Busch's Frontage Road, Suite 301
Annapolis, MD 21409-5543
John Hanson Business Center
339 Busch's Frontage Road, Suite 301
Annapolis, MD 21409-5543
Is this a rolling date? :
NoDue Date:
Dates Link:
RollingPurpose:
The program focuses on implementing conservation practices and BMP's on land involved with livestock and crop production, encouraging environmental enhancement.
Support Type:
BothAvailable Funding:
Cost-sharing pays up to 75% of certain conservation practices, and incentives are given to perform land management practices. 50% of the available funding will be targeted at practices relating to livestock production. The Cooperative Conservation Partnership Initiative (CCPI) also provides $93,000 of EQIP funding yearly for forest improvement activities. The funds reimburse landowners up to 75% of the costs of conducting forest improvement activitiesFunding Range:
Total payments do not exceed $10,000/yr or $50,000 for length of contract, average payment $15,000.Restoration Activity:
Grassed waterways, filter strips, manure management, nutrient management, integrated pest management, wildlife habitat management.Eligibility:
Individual/family farmers and ranchers. Eligible land includes cropland, rangeland, pastureland, private non-industrial forestland, and other farm or ranch lands. One acre of forest and a current forest management plan.Recently, forest management and conservation practices related to organic production have been given stronger emphasis in the program.
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Featured Fellow
Nina Santos
Nina Santos is a Ph.D. student at the Chesapeake Biological Laboratory at the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science. For her dissertation, she is focused on small shrimp-like crustaceans called mysids – an understudied yet important part of many estuarine and coastal food webs.
Featured Research Project
Developing a habitat model for mysids, an important link in Chesapeake Bay food webs
Mysids are important mesozooplankton prey for many species of fish in Chesapeake Bay and are an important link in transferring energy from lower to upper trophic levels. Mysids also serve as biological vectors for benthic-pelagic coupling due to their diel vertical migration and omnivorous prey-switching behavior, which makes mysids important regulators of food web architecture. Despite their central role in coastal food webs, surprisingly little is known about mysid ecology and dynamics in Chesapeake Bay.
