Financial Incentives: Federal Financial Assistance

A variety of federal assistance programs are available through the United States Department of Agriculture's Farm Service Agency (FSA) and Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) for landowners in St. Joseph County, Indiana.

Is There Conservation Funding Available for YOU?

Are you interested in any of the practices listed below?

If so, there’s a chance we have a program or financial assistance to help pay for getting started, or in some cases we can help improve and/or expand the practices you are already doing…

Programs are just one tool that the NRCS and the Soil & Water Conservation District can offer. 

You can also receive technical assistance, including whole-farm conservation planning.  Technical assistance does not have to be tied to program.

Some Conservation Practices We Can Help You With Are...

• Cover Crops
• Critical Area Planting
• Crop Residue Management
• Crop Rotation
• Diversion Embankment for Water Run-Off
• Field Border
• Filter Strip
• Grazing
• Grade Control Structure
• Grassed Waterway
• Heavy Use Areas
• Irrigation and Water Management
• Manure Testing
• Manure Storage
• Nutrient  Management
• Organic Farming Transition
• Pasture Planting
• Pest Management
• Planned Grazing Systems
• Residue & Tillage Management
• Stream Protection
• Tree Planting
• Water and Sediment Control  Basin
• Well Protection
• Wetlands
• Wetland  Enhancement
• Wildlife Food Plot
• Wildlife Upland Habitat
• Windbreaks
• Woodland  Management
• … and MORE !

Contact us for further information regarding program elgibility and requirements.