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.
DSP-2: Permanent Vegetative Cover Enhancement. Cost-share is limited to 80 acres per landowner for 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% legumes.
DSL-11: Permanent Vegetative Cover (Critical Areas). If eligible, cost-share assistance is applicable for critical areas such as gullies, banks, roadsides, field borders and similar problem areas on farms. Cost-share is authorized for measures needed to stabilize a source of sediment, such as grading, shaping and filling; the establishment (including lime and fertilizer) of grasses; mulching; trees or shrubs; or fencing to exclude livestock from new plantings.
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 Systems Practice.
System manager must first attend a University of Missouri 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; spring development; warm-season grass seed, drilling, seed bed preparation, broadcast seeding, rolling and chemicals; etc. Please see SWCD/Personnel for complete listing.
DWP-1 Sediment Retention, Erosion or Water Control Structures. If eligible, cost-share is authorized for sediment detention or retention structures. These include erosion control dams, de-silting reservoirs, sediment basins, debris basins or similar structures. Cost-share is also available for channel linings, chutes, drop spillways, drop pipes and tile. Also for fencing and vegetative cover needed to protect the structure.
DWP-3: Sod Waterways. If eligible, cost-share assistance is authorized for site preparation, grading, shaping, filling and establishing permanent nonwoody vegetative cover. Cost-share is also authorized for subsurface drains that are necessary for proper functioning of the waterway. Also, assistance can be provided for berm removal.
