EQIP Conservation Practice List & Point Calculator By County

South Carolina Program Brief Overview

The Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP) is a voluntary conservation program from the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service. It supports production agriculture and environmental quality as compatible goals. Through EQIP, producers may receive financial and technical help with structural and management conservation practices on agricultural land.

South Carolina's resource concerns, recommended by the Sate Technical Committee, are: Cropland Erosion, Cropland Management, Animal Waste Management, Grazing Lands Management, Forestland Erosion and Wildlife Habitat Management.

Local Working groups, have identified resource concern priorities for their area. The conservation practices that treat the resource needs of the highest concerns receive the most environmental points and are funded accordingly.  The EQIP Point Calculator is an estimating tool provided by the University of South Carolina-Earth Sciences Research Institute and the USDA-Natural Resources Conservation Service.

Limitations of Use

Use of the EQIP Points Calculator will generate an estimate of your possible EQIP score for the 2003 ranking process in South Carolina.  Contact your local NRCS office to verify your actual EQIP ranking score and related practice information.

Instructions:

  1. Select your county from the pull down menu, click on "GO".
  2. Choose a practice from the pull down menu, enter practice quantity in associated units.
  3. Choose a resource concern from the pull down menu.  The resource concerns are listed in order of priority and higher priority concerns are given a weighted ranking.  Once you have chosen a resource concern, the associated priority and weight will be displayed.
  4. Click on the "Calculate" button to see how the selected practice would score.
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Please note - This example will generate an estimate of your possible score.  Contact your local NRCS office to verify your actual EQIP ranking score and related practice information.