C4-Lancaster Farming, Saturday, September 13, 1997 Farm Bill NEW ORLEANS, La. The 1996 Farm Bill is reshaping the way U.S. agriculture deals with conservation of the country’s natural resources, the acting asso ciate director of the USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Service told attendees at the National Resource Management Planning Conference here recently. The key to the landmark Farm Bill can be summarized as “transi tion,” said Gary Margheim, acting associate chief of the NRCS. Just as the new Farm Bill moved the American farmer from an era of price supports to an era of free market agriculture, it also marks the “transition into a new conservation era for the next cen tury,” Margheim said. “It will be an era where our producers will be rewarded for being good con servationists.” Programs and initiatives deal ing with conservation in the 1996 Farm Bill are a recognition of the “phenomenal progress” made in WOODS - Dual WOODS - GANNON WOODS - GILL R.S. HOLLINGER & NORMAN D. 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Contracts for the program will be for five to 10 years. Seventy-five percent of funding for individual EQIP con tracts go to cost sharing for struc tural and vegetative practices. Under the Wildlife Habitat Incentives Program, anything not a “plant or mineral” will be eligi ble for funding, said Jeanne Chris tie, national program leader for laft-within-a- IPX’S Orefield, PA 610-366-2095 D.W. OGG EQUIPMENT CO. Fredenck, MD 301-473-4250 Westminster, MD 410-848-3458 WHIP. Included are species found in wetlands, uplands, as well as aquatic species, Christie said. The maximum for an individual con-* tract is $lO,OOO per contract per landowner. Significant program emphasis needs to be placed in the area of grasslands, Christie said. Various types of grasslands are among the most fragile ecosystems in the country, she said, adding the vulnerable nature of grasslands has caused some of the most seri ous wildlife survival problems in the U.S. Gary Westmoreland, national coordinator for the Grazing Lands Conservation initiative, echoed Christie’s observations on the fra gile nature of the nations grass lands. He pointed out that while grazing lands make up more than Silo I nloader 'I ethnology lakes a (liant l eap lorvvard! I I \SI II lODU \\ 11 MOM I'milM DOWN! See These Dealers For Details Now... PENNSYLVANIA ERB & HENRY EQUIPMENT INC. New Berlinville, PA 19545 215-367-2169 LAPP’S BARN EQUIPMENT SALES & SERVICE Gap, PA 17527 717-442-8134 SOLLENBERGER SILOS CORP. Chambersburg, PA 17201 717-264-9588 WALNUT BARN EQUIPMENT Port Royal, PA 717-436-9429 SOMERSET BARN EQUIPMENT Somerset, PA 15501 814-445-5555 half of the private land area in the U.S., the technological assistance to those programs has been declin ing. 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