We deliver conservation solutions so agricultural producers can protect natural resources and feed a growing world.
The Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP) is designed to help farmers, ranchers, and forest landowners integrate conservation practices into working lands. It is a voluntary conservation program that offers financial and technical assistance to agricultural producers to embrace structural and management conservation practices that enhance environmental benefits on working agricultural land. The program supports a range of national priorities, including the Colorado River Basin Salinity Control Program, On-Farm Energy Initiative, High Tunnel System, National Water Quality Initiative, Organic Initiative, Sage Grouse Initiative, and the Southwest Willow Flycatcher initiative. These priorities aim to address various environmental concerns ranging from salinity reduction in the Colorado River, energy conservation on farms, extending growing seasons through high tunnels, improving water quality, supporting organic and transitioning producers, restoring sage grouse habitats, and enhancing the habitat of the southwestern willow flycatcher. Additionally, EQIP aligns with state priorities that focus on issues like livestock production limitation, managing sediment, nutrient and pathogen loss, source water depletion, soil quality limitation, terrestrial habitat, fire management, and the storage and handling of pollutants.