2024 Cost-share offerings
The following cost-share programs are available to WWCC members in 2024:
- Cover Crops – {$20/acre, 50-acre max}
- 4-R Nutrient Stewardship – {$20/acre, 50-acre max}
- No-till/Reduced Tillage – {$20/acre, 50-acre max}
- Harvestable buffer – {$300/acre, 5-acre max}
- Economic Nitrogen Rates – {$500/farm, minimum of 1 test plot plus a control, 15-acre minimum}
The cost-share program is designed to be inclusive to help every member meet their soil and water conservation goals. The practices above have been shown to provide a suite of benefits, including but not limited to, reducing soil erosion by wind and water, limiting nutrient losses via leaching, runoff, or other loss pathways, and improving soil health.
To participate, please indicate which program(s) you would like to enroll in and the number of acres/samples you are enrolling. WWCC’s cost-share program is intended to be a learning opportunity for members, so we ask that members be willing to share lessons learned from trying a new practice with the group.
Final cost-share payments are dependent on available funds and will be distributed at the end of the year. If you are not yet a WWCC member, please fill out the membership form at westernwisconservation.org.
To enroll, complete the form (link below) return (with receipts) by Nov. 15.
How it works:
- Plant cover crops (whatever variety fits into your farming system) in fields harvested for wheat, corn silage
or other crops - Implement no-till, limited/reduced till or strip till in fields harvested for corn, beans or wheat
- Work with your agronomist/CCA to take soil and/or tissue samples and send them to an accredited lab
- Plant or improve a harvestable buffer consisting of a perennial grass cover to capture sediment and
nutrients. One-time payment, not eligible more than once. - Economic nitrogen rates include test plots plus a control. The test plots will have different rates of nitrogen
applied to find the optimum rate for the maximum yield. - Let WWCC know how many total acres are in each practice and how many will be cost shared
- Complete the WWCC member conservation practice survey
All individual farm data is confidential. Final cost-share payments dependent on funds.
Questions? Please contact us at westernwisconservation@gmail.com or 715.760.0216 (Todd Doornink)
Forms are due November 15, 2024