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Soil Program Details

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Lower Platte North NRD Shell Creek Lands for Conservation Cost Share

The Shell Creek Watershed Improvement Group (SCWIG) was established in 1999 as a locally–led cadre of producers, residents, non-governmental organizations, as well as, state and federal agencies with the purpose of addressing the multi-faceted impairments of Shell Creek. The watershed experienced numerous damaging flood events and had multiple water quality concerns, including E. coli and atrazine impairments.

For more information, please contact us: Lower Platte North Natural Resources District. 511 Commercial Park Road, PO Box 126 Wahoo, NE 68066
(402) 443-4675 or lpnnrd@lpnnrd.org

Farm Eligibility

Eligible Practices

  • _Other
  • Access Control
  • Agroforestry / Forestry
  • Conservation Cover
  • Edge-of-Field Management
  • Field Border
  • Field Borders
  • Grazing and Pasture
  • In-Field Management
  • Increased Biodiversity
  • Irrigation
  • Irrigation Water Management
  • Living Roots Year-Round
  • Nutrient Management
  • Pasture And Hay Planting
  • Pollinator Habitat
  • Prescribed Grazing
  • Regenerative Ag
  • Soil Health. Other programs may have different combinations of eligible practices.
  • Upland Wildlife Habitat Management
  • Watering Facility
  • Windbreak/Shelterbelt Establishment and Renovation

Eligible Counties (in NE)

Boone, Colfax, Madison, Platte, and Polk

Money Matters

Price

Provides a land rental payment to set aside the footprint of the construction area in order to extend the construction season. Cost-share is based on currently published UNL average cash rental rates