From weather to pests, each American farmer faces a unique set of challenges. The Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP) provides financial and technical assistance to agricultural and forestry producers to address natural resource concerns and deliver environmental benefits such as improved water and air quality, conserved ground and surface water, reduced soil erosion and sedimentation, and improved or created wildlife habitat.

Benefits

This voluntary conservation programs helps producers make conservation work for them. Together, NRCS and producers invest in solutions that conserve natural resources for the future while also improving agricultural operations. 

Through EQIP, NRCS provides agricultural producers with financial resources and one-on-one help to plan and implement improvements, or what NRCS calls conservation practices. Using these practices can lead to cleaner water and air, healthier soil and better wildlife habitat, all while improving agricultural operations. Through EQIP, you can voluntarily implement conservation practices, and NRCS co-invests in these practices with you.

Program at a Glance

To get started, NRCS first works one-on-one with you to develop a conservation plan that meets your goals and vision for the land. This becomes a roadmap for which conservation practices best meet your needs. 

Financial assistance covers part of the costs from implementing conservation practices. These practices are geared towards working farms, ranches and forests and provide producers with many options for conservation. 

How to Apply

Have a resource concern you are ready to address or a management system you want to try? We are ready to help. 

The local NRCS conservation planner will have a one-on-one consultation with you to evaluate the current condition of the natural resource conditions or concerns on your land.  An NRCS conservation planner will present you with a variety of conservation practices or systems to address your concerns or management goals while improving and protecting the natural resource condition of your land.  Together you and the NRCS conservation planner will develop a Conservation Plan - a tool designed to help you better manage the nature resources on your farm. 

Contact Alaska Environmental Quality Incentives Program

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Contact Alaska Environmental Quality Incentives Program

Amanda Crowe
Assistant State Conservationist - Programs
800 West Evergreen Avenue Suite 100
Palmer, Alaska  99645
Phone: 907-761-7757
Fax: 907-761-7790
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Service Area

Statewide Program in:

• Alaska

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