This document discusses cost share opportunities for nutrient management through USDA's Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP) and Missouri's Soil and Water Conservation Program (SWCP). EQIP provides financial assistance of up to 75% for practices like nutrient management plans, waste storage facilities, and mortality composters. SWCP provides cost share of up to 75% for similar practices and also provides incentive payments for adopting new nutrient management techniques. Contact information is provided for EQIP and SWCP representatives. A variety of eligible practices are described, including waste management systems, pasture management, and other conservation opportunities.

1. Cost Share Opportunities for
Nutrient Management

2. Cost Share Opportunities for Nutrient Management
• Moderator - Jerry Foster, JBS Live Pork
• State Cost Share - Jim Plassmeyer, MO DNR SWCP
• Federal Cost Share - Lauren Cartwright USDA NRCS

3. Missouri NRCS Contacts:
EQIP Program Coordinator
Lauren Cartwright
Lauren.cartwright@mo.usda.gov
Environmental Engineer
Troy Chockley
Troy.Chockley@mo.usda.gov
Agronomist-Nutrient Management Specialist
Glenn Davis
Glenn.davis@mo.usda.gov
Jim.Plassmeyer@dnr.mo.gov
Missouri Department of Natural Resources
Soil and Water Conservation Program
PO Box 176
Jefferson City, MO 65102-0176
Find us on the web at dnr.mo.gov
Call toll-free at 800-361-4827
Cost Share Opportunities for Nutrient Management

4. Cost Share Opportunities for Nutrient Management
Whether your hog farm is:
• farrow to wean, wean to feeder, wean to finish or
feeder to finish or farrow to finish
• Contract or Independent
• Confinement, open lot or pastured
One thing is certain

5. Cost Share Opportunities for Nutrient Management
You have nutrients to manage

6. Cost Share Opportunities for Nutrient Management
Nutrient management challenges
• Collection
• Transport
• Application
• Planning

7. Cost Share Opportunities for Nutrient Management
What do you need most to meet your
nutrient management challenges?

8. Cost Share Opportunities for Nutrient Management
Money
• Everything comes down to economics
• Money makes the World go around
• It takes money to make money

9. Cost Share Opportunities for Nutrient Management
The primary challenge with
money – Where to get it

10. Cost Share Opportunities for Nutrient Management
When it comes to financial assistance
for nutrient management
conservation practices, Missouri is in
a unique position compared to most
states.

11. Cost Share Opportunities for Nutrient Management
USDA
• provides financial assistance through
Environmental Quality Incentive
Program
Missouri
• provides financial assistance through
the Soil And Water Conservation
Program

12. Cost Share Opportunities for Nutrient Management

14. Technical Assistance (TA)
Vs.
Financial Assistance (FA)

15. • Provides reimbursement of up to 75% of
estimated cost to landowners for installing
conservation practices that prevent or
control excessive erosion and protect water
quality.
• Incentive payments for management
improvements.
• Program oriented toward conservation, not
production.
• Cost-share not available to permitted
facilities.
• FY18 cost-share appropriation is $40
million
SWCP Cost-Share Program

16. Further Information – How to get started
https://www.nrcs.usda.gov/wps/portal/nrcs/detailfull/national/home/?cid=stelprdb1193811

17. Conservation Client Gateway
https://www.nrcs.usda.gov/wps/portal/nrcs/main/national/cgate/

18. Financial Assistance:
EQIP* Focus
*Environmental Quality Incentives Program
Animal and Waste
Management Opportunities
On-Farm Energy
Other Conservation
Opportunities

19. Resource
Concern
Areas Nutrient and Pest
Grazing
Irrigation
Woodland
Sensitive Areas
Sheet,
Rill and
Gully
Animal
Waste

20. Nutrient Management
Nutrient management preserve and protect water quality by
demonstrating the environmental and economic advantages of
following a nutrient management.
Provide operators an incentive ($20/acre) to encourage the adoption of
new management techniques and/or technologies for applying manure
and fertilizer.

21. Animal and Waste Management Opportunities
Confinement Operations Pastured Operations Closures
Plans:
102 CNMP
104 NMP
Structural Assistance:
Waste Management
Waste Storage
Waste Transfer
Mortality Management:
Compost or Incinerator
**Requires CNMP**
Grazing/Pasture Management:
Water Distribution
Fencing
etc.
May be in addition to Confinement
options, if applicable.
Structural Assistance:
Waste Facility Closure
**Does not require CNMP**

22. Animal and Waste Management Opportunities
Limitations/Rules:
We don’t build animal housing – FA is limited to activities that support addressing resource concerns
associated with waste management, waste storage, waste transfer and mortalities.
Must be an Animal Feeding Operation (AFO) - for waste management, storage, transfer and mortality
practices (not applicable for pasture based systems)
Must be an existing operation - applicable to confinement and pasture based operations
AFO - An AFO is an agricultural operation where animals are kept and raised in confined situations. AFOs
generally congregate animals, feed, manure, dead animals, and production operations on a small land area. Feed is brought to the
animals rather than the animals grazing or otherwise seeking feed in pastures, fields, or on rangeland. An AFO is a lot or facility (other
than an aquatic animal production facility) where both of the following conditions are met:
(a) Animals have been, are, or will be stabled or confined and fed or maintained for a total of 45 days or more in any 12-month period
(note: 45 days do not have to be consecutive).
(b) Crops, vegetation, forage growth, or post-harvest residues are not sustained in the normal growing season over any portion of the
lot or facility (note: greater than 50% of the lot does not sustain vegetative cover to be considered an AFO per MO Code of State
Regulations 6.300(1)(B)4).

23. Uncontrolled runoff:
water quality resource concerns
Manure overflowing existing storage:
water quality resource concerns

24. Solid manure
stacking facility with
roof and concrete
side walls
With settling basin
And
Filter Strip

25. Mortality
composting facility
with primary
composting bins and
secondary storage
bins.

26. Traveling gun waste application utilizing
buried distribution pipeline

27. Hogs being raised on
a pasture rotation
system, Manhattan,
KS.

28. Nutrient & Pest Management
Pesticide Runoff Potential for 13 crops
Gulf Hypoxia – Dead Zone

29. Composting Facility
Incinerator
Animal Waste Management

30. Beef Waste Management
Swine Waste Management
Animal Waste Management

31. Swine Waste Management
Practice intention is to store animal waste to preclude discharge to
surface or ground water and to recycle waste through correct soil
application to agricultural land.

32. Swine Waste Management
Cost-share is available at 75% for:
• Flush tanks
• Conveyance of waste to treatment area
• Solids separator
• Solids separation basin
• Solids storage area, including roof
• Lagoon
• Pit storage and underground collection

33. Jasper SWCD 3/2014
Field Border
Sensitive Areas
Riparian Buffers

34. Stream Protection through livestock exclusion
Sensitive Areas
Jasper SWCD 5/2016Jasper SWCD 3/2014

35. Field Border
• Conversion of crop field perimeters to permanent vegetative cover.
• $600 per acre incentive plus 75%
of seeding cost.
• Haying, mowing and incidental grazing allowed.

36. Filter Strip
• Applicable to areas below cropland, hay land or grazing land where
sediment, nutrients, pesticides and animal waste may leave these
areas.
• $1,000 per acre incentive plus 75% of seeding cost.

37. Riparian Forest Buffer
• Applicable to areas adjacent to streams, public drinking water
reservoirs or natural wetland to reduce excess amounts of sediment,
organic material, nutrients and pesticides in surface runoff.
• $1,200 per acre incentive plus 75% of costs for tree plantings, fence,
well and tank.

38. EQIP On Farm Energy Initiative
1. Energy Audit (Agricultural Energy Management Plan)
2. Technical and Financial Assistance
Identify ways to conserve energy on the farm
Implement recommendations and conservation practices identified in the audit
Building Envelope
Improvement
Insulation Improvements
Farmstead Energy
Improvement
Ventilation, Heating,
Motors, Automated
Controllers
Lighting System
Improvement
Indoor and Outdoor
lighting upgrades

39. EQIP – Other Conservation Opportunities
Includes, but not limited to…
Monarch Butterfly Habitat
Development Project
Forestland Management
Wildlife Habitat
Management
Agroforestry and Woody
Crop Establishment
Cropland Management

40. EQIP – Other Conservation Opportunities
Prairie Restoration
Pollinator/Monarch Habitat

41. Wildlife Habitat

42. Agroforestry - Silvopasture Agroforestry – Woody Crop
Agroforestry – Alley Cropping
Agroforestry – Windbreak/Shelterbelt

43. Cover Crop
Buffers/Field Borders Residue Management – No Till

44. Forest Management