Stone County Soil and Water Conservation District
Assistance Available
We are here to serve the landowners and land users in Stone County by providing technical, educational and financial resources in conserving soil and water resources. This district office has been serving Stone County since 1965. Every year, dollars are earmarked for qualified landowners for implementing best land management practices on their property.
State cost-share is a great opportunity to improve pastures by establishing or improving forage stands while controlling erosion, implementing proper grazing systems and practices for maximizing production and minimizing cost. The following are available cost-share practices:
District Cost-Share Practices
VEGETATIVE COVER ESTABLISHMENT AND/OR IMPROVEMENT
DSL - 1: Permanent Vegetative Cover Establishment. If eligible, cost-share assistance is authorized for lime and fertilizer (by soil test results), eligible seed, seeding operations and seedbed preparation. Cost-share assistance is limited to the minimum amount of lime, fertilizer and seed needed to establish adequate cover to control erosion.
DSL - 2: Permanent Vegetative Cover Improvement. If eligible, cost-share assistance is authorized for seeding of legumes into permanent vegetation and for lime, fertilizer (by soil test results) and chemicals necessary to establish the legumes. Cost-share assistance is limited to the minimum amount of lime, fertilizer and seed needed to establish adequate cover to control erosion. Has established or is making progress toward establishing a satisfactory grazing program; cost-share not authorized if land has been overgrazed.
DSP - 2: Permanent Vegetative Cover Improvement. Cost-share is limited to 80 acres per landowner for all farms owned in this practice. If eligible, cost-share assistance is authorized for minimum and necessary legume seed, lime and fertilizer (by soil test results) needed to perform the practice. Practice applicable only to pastureland where vegetative cover is in poor or very poor condition with less than 30 percent legumes. This is a no-till demonstration practice only.
DFR - 5: Woodland Protection Through Livestock Exclusion. This practice is designed to protect soil and plant resources from grazing by domestic livestock. If eligible, cost-share is authorized for plantings to correct immediate erosion problems and the necessary seed or seedlings. Also, authorized is field fencing to exclude livestock from woodland that lies within an existing functional interior or property line fence.
INTENSIVE GRAZING SYSTEMS AND WATERWAYS: EROSION OR WATER CONTROL.
DSP - 3: Planned Grazing System Practices. System manager must first attend a Grazing School before being eligible for cost-share assistance through this practice. The system manager is the person responsible for the day to day management of the grazing system. This manager may or may not include the landowner. If eligible, cost-share is authorized for interior fencing costs, rapid impulse fence charger or a solar energizer; solar panel and/or battery for the charger; pipeline installation from water source to water distribution point; components that provide access to a water source distribution system; components that directly provide water to livestock as needed; warm-season grass seed, drilling, seed bed preparation, broadcast seeding, rolling and chemicals; etc.; limited to $90/ac. or $13,500 max. Please see soil and water conservation district personnel for complete listing.
Stone County Soil and Water Conservation District and USDA are equal opportunity employers and providers.
