The Blue Ridge Soil & Water Conservation District, located at 1297 State Street, Rocky Mount, VA, 24151, is now accepting application for the Program Year 2021 Virginia Agricultural Cost Share (VACS) program. This program offers conservation practices to farmers that include planting winter cover crops on cropland, ways to manage and store animal waste, plans for use of nutrients, exclusion of livestock from streams, install watering systems and rotational grazing, plant trees to convert crop and pastureland to forest, plus several other practices. These practices are incentivized and can pay up to 100 percent paid by reimbursement. To qualify, land must be currently in agricultural production with a water quality concern present. For more information, please call the Blue Ridge SWCD at 540-352-3312 and ask for Michael Tabor or Allen Jackson. Our early sign-up deadline is September 4, 2020 and new practices will be ranked and approved no earlier than the September 28th Blue Ridge SWCD Board Meeting. Programs offered through Blue Ridge SWCD are available to all people regardless of race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, or political affiliation.
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