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Tennessee EQIP Application Information

Updated 06/02/2008

Conservation Practices - EQIP Sign-up by County

The NRCS in Tennessee has implemented a lean and local process that streamlines the application and evaluation procedures. The State Technical Committee and Local Work Groups have recommended the practices eligible for financial assistance and the ranking questions that will be used to evaluate each application. County ranking questions and eligible practices available for cost-share can be found below. Each fund code has a different set of ranking questions. All applications will be ranked using national and state questions. The County Base fund code will also include local ranking questions.

The practices available for cost-share and other information are available by county.

2008 EQIP General Program Description Documents

How EQIP in Tennessee Works

How to Apply for the EQIP Program

Planning Tools and Requirement Sheets

To view the following documents in Adobe Acrobat format, click here for a free reader:

Pasture Condition Scoresheet TN Standard (PDF; 51 KB)
Pasture Condition Scoresheet Field Summary (PDF; 11 KB)
Record Keeping Sample Prescribed Grazing (PDF; 36 KB)
Record Keeping for Pasture and Nutrient Management (PDF; 55 KB)
Planning Tool for Beef Feeding (PDF; 16 KB)
Forest Habitat Improvement - fact sheet (PDF; 1424 KB)
Forest Habitat Funding Pool Overview (PDF; 30 KB)
Prescribed Forestry (Code 409) Payment Example (PDF; 22 KB)
Requirements for Cover Crop Incentive (PDF; 18 KB)
Requirements for Heavy Use Area Incentive (PDF; 22 KB)
Requirements for Irrigation Water Management Incentive (PDF; 21 KB)
Requirements for Irrigation History and Producer Self-Certification of Irrigation History (PDF; 38 KB)
Requirements for Nutrient Management - Precision Ag Crop Incentive (PDF; 21 KB)
Requirements for Pasture Nutrient Management Incentive (PDF; 38 KB)
Requirements for Pasture Renovation (PDF; 33 KB)
Requirements for Pasture and Hay Planting (PDF; 55 KB)
Requirements for Prescribed Grazing Incentive (PDF; 46 KB)
Requirements for Pest Management Biological Weed Control (PDF; 29 KB)
Requirements for Pest Management (Kudzu & Privet Control) (PDF; 27 KB)
Requirements for Riparian Forest Buffer Incentive (PDF; 34 KB)
Requirements for Upland Wildlife Habitat Management Incentive (PDF; 25 KB)
Requirements for Waste Utilization Incentive-surface (PDF; 31 KB)
Requirements for Waste Utilization Incentive-injection (PDF; 32 KB)

2008 Tennessee Statewide Ranking Tools and Resource Concerns

To view the following documents in Adobe Acrobat format, click here for a free reader:

AFO/CAFO, Water and Air Quality (PDS; 31 KB)
Aquatic At-Risk Species Habitat Conservation (PDF; 30 KB)

2008 TN EQIP Aquatic Priority List (PDF; 14 KB)

Cropland - Erosion/Sedimentation (PDF; 32 KB)
Forest Habitat Improvement (PDF; 22 KB)
Grassland At-Risk Species Habitat Conservation (PDF; 31 KB)
Invasive Species (Kudzu and Privet) (PDF; 25 KB)
Limited Resource Farmer/Beginning Farmer (PDF; 69 KB)
National Questions Clarifiers 2008 EQIP (PDF; 12 KB)
State 2008 EQIP Payment Schedule (PDF; 41 KB)

EQIP Information by County

The practices available for cost-share and other information are available by county.

2007 EQIP information

The archived 2007 EQIP information is here.

2006 EQIP information

The archived 2006 EQIP information is here.