PDF Cost-Share Program
Practice and Rates for Cost-Sharing
Maximum Rates
Erosion Control Practices:
- Agricultural sediment basins - 70%
- Contour farming - 50% or $9/acre one-time payment
- Contour stripcropping - 50% or $13.50/acre one-time payment
- Cropland protection cover - 50% or $25/acre/year for up to three years
- Livestock fencing - 50%
- Field diversions - 70%
- Grassed waterways - 70%
- High residue management - 50% or $18.50/acre for up to six years
- Intensive grazing management - 50%*
- Terraces - 70%
Manure Management Practices
- Animal lot abandonment or relocation - 70%
- Barnyard runoff management - 70%
- Cattle mounds - 70%
- Manure storage abandonment - 70%
- Manure storage facilities - 70% of the first $20,000**
- Milk center waste control - 70%
- Nutrient and pesticide management - 50% up to three years
- Roofs for barnyard/manure storage - 70%
Other Practice
- Critical Area stabilization - 70%
- Easements - up yo 100%
- Grade stabilization structures - 70%
- Pesticide spill control facilities - 70%
- Shoreline buffers - 70%
- Shoreline/steambank protection - 70%
- Well abandonment - 70%
- Wetland restoration - 70%
Under some circumstances, practices not included on this list may be eligible for cost-sharing. Check with your county conservationist for more details
* - If watering system used, up to $2,000 per system
** - 50% of remaining eligible costs up to $35,000