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Soil Program Details

Nebraska Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP)

EQIP provides financial and technical assistance to agricultural producers to address natural resource concerns and deliver environmental benefits such as improved water and air quality, increased soil health, improved/created wildlife habitat and mitigation against increasing weather volatility.

Farm Eligibility

Eligible Practices

  • Agroforestry / Forestry
  • Alley Cropping
  • Amending Soil Properties with Lime
  • Buffer Strips
  • Carbon Sequestration
  • Conservation Cover
  • Conservation Crop Rotation
  • Conservation Crop Rotations
  • Conservation Cropping Rotation
  • Contour Buffer Strips
  • Cover Crops
  • Crop Rotation
  • Denitrifying Bioreactor
  • Disaster Relief Assistance
  • Drainage Water Management
  • Edge-of-Field Management
  • Federal
  • Feed Management
  • Fencing
  • Field Border
  • Field Borders
  • Filter Strip
  • Filter Strips
  • Forest Stand Improvement
  • Forest Stand Improvements
  • Funding
  • Grassed Waterway
  • Grazing and Pasture
  • Hedgerow Planting
  • Herbaceous Wind Barriers
  • In-Field Management
  • Increase Biodiversity
  • Increased Biodiversity
  • Integrated Pest Management Plans
  • Irrigation Water Management
  • Livestock Pipeline
  • Living Roots Year-Round
  • Manure Management
  • Mulching
  • Nutrient Management
  • Pasture And Hay Planting
  • Pasture and Hayland Planting
  • Pollinator Habitat
  • Prescribed Burning
  • Prescribed Grazing
  • Range Planting
  • Reduced- or No-Till
  • Regenerative Ag
  • Residue and Tillage Management
  • Riparian Forest Buffer
  • Riparian Herbaceous Cover
  • Silvopasture
  • Soil Health. Other programs may have different combinations of eligible practices.
  • Tree/Shrub Establishment
  • Upland Wildlife Habitat Management
  • Vegetative Barriers
  • Waste Separation Facility
  • Watering Facility
  • Wetland Restoration
  • Windbreak/Shelterbelt Establishment and Renovation

Eligible Counties (in NE)

Statewide

Money Matters

Price

EQIP payments are typically between $1,500 and $80,000 annually, depending on the specific contract and practices being implemented. https://www.nrcs.usda.gov/getting-assistance/payment-schedules