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HARRISBURG (Dauphin
Co.) Eligible Pennsylvania far
mers can now apply for funding to
correct local natural resource prob
lems in 20 selected watersheds,
said Janet Oertly, state conserva
tionist for the USDA Natural
Resources Conservation Service
(NRCS).
The USDA NRCS office in Pen
nsylvania received $3.4 million to
administer to fund projects
through the Environmental Qual
ity Incentives Program (EQIP),
newly authorized in the 1996 Farm
Bill.
EQIP is a voluntary program
that provides financial assistance
of up to 75 percent of the cost to
install or apply certain conserva
tion practices.
Some of the conservation prac
tices include grassed waterways,
filter strips and manure storage
structures.
Incentive payments can be made
to encourage producers to manage
certain resources such as manure
and nutrients. The program is lim
ited to agricultural and livestock
producers.
Eligible land includes cropland,
forestland, and pasture.
“This program will help produc
ers address some of the most criti
cal natural resource concerns, such
as soil erosion, water quality and
quantity, wildlife habitat, and wet
lands,” Oertly said. “More produc
tive croplands, cleaner water, and
better wildlife will benefit all Pen
nsylvania residents.”
This fiscal year, 65 percent of
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the cost-share funds are to be
targeted toward local resource
issues in the 20 selected water
sheds, while 35 percent is to be
targeted for two statewide resource
concerns crop production and
livestock and poultry production,
according to Oertly.
Producers can apply for assis
tance until July 11 at any local
office of the NRCS, as well as any
office of the USDA Farm Service
Agency, or local state Conserva
tion District.
The application periods for cost
share funding for projects within
the specific watersheds are to be
announced locally. Contact a local
office of the NRCS, FSA or Con
servation District to find out the
application times.
As background, local groups
made up of representatives of fed
eral. state and local agencies and
interested natural resource organi
zations submitted suggested areas
for consideration for funding.
The 20 watersheds (considered
“geographic areas”), and the
statewide resouces concerns were
then selected by Oertly in conjunc
tion with the State Technical Com
mittee and state office of the
USDA FSA.
These selected areas have sig
nificant soil, water, or related
natural resource concerns, accord
ing to Oertly.
Since most of the funding will
be distributed to fund projects in
the targeted geographic priority
areas, producers within these areas
have a better chance of receiving
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funding. Oertly said.
A conservation plan is required
for all EQIP contracts, which run
from five to 10 years.
NRCS and county conservation
district staffs arc to provide the
technical and educational assis
tance producers need to apply or
install conservation practices base
d on their conservation plan, Oert
ly said. The plan is to describe con
servation and management prac
tices to protect soil, water, air
and/or related natural resources.
EQIP is USDA’s largest conser
vation program designed to con-
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Middle Atlantic Order Market
Administrator Rex F. Lothrop an
nounced a May 1997 weighted
average milk price of $13.25.
The weighted average differ
ential price was $2.65 per
hundredweight and the producer
nonfat milk solids price was 82
cents per pound. The weighted
average price was down 31 cents
from April and was 80 cents lower
than a year earlier.
The producer NFMS price was
serve and improve land while it
remains in agricultural production.
It replaced older and some other
conservation incentive programs,
and has an annual budget of $2OO
million through 2002.
A list of the specific watersheds
targeted for priority funding, and
the respective allocation of
$2,240,000 to be spent in the
watershed during 1997. includes
Pequea-Mill-Octorara at
$151,000; Neshaminy, $76,500;
Tulpchocken, $141,500; Little
Swatara, $121,500; Maiden,
$121,500; Pigeon-Pike, $76,500;
4 May Milk $13.25
down 36 cents from last May. The
nonfat milk solids price, applicab
le to handler payments, was
$.8259 per pound for the month,
down 36.20 cents from last year.
The gross value of May produc
er milk, adjusted to 3.5 percent
butterfat was $82.5 million, com
pared to $71.7 million a year ago.
Mr. Lothrop said that producer
receipts totaled 625.2 million
pounds during May, an increase of
112.5 million pounds from last
May and the average daily deliv-
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Youghinghcny, $81,500; Sugar,
$136,500; Crooked-
Cowanshannock, $136,500; Cla
rion, $101,500; Lake Erie.
$151,500; Evitts, $36,500; Codor
us, $121,500; Jordan, $76,500;
Chickies, $126,500; Conodo
quinet, $116,500; Muncy-
Chillisquaque, $116,500;
Shamokin-Mahanoy, $76,500;
Cowanesque-Genesee, $121,500.
The rest of the funds to be used
to address issues of statewide con
cern is $1,204,000.
cry of 3,724 pounds per producer
increased 174 pounds or 4.9 per
cent from a year earlier.
A total of 5,416 producers sup
plied Order 4 handlers during the
month, an increase of 757 from a
year ago. Class I producer milk to
taled 260.7 million pounds and
was up 40.8 million pounds, or
18.5 percent from last May.
Class I milk accounted for
41.71 percent of total producer
milk receipts during the month,
compared with 42.90 percent in
May 1996.
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