The goal of the FAP Program is to provide Vermont farms with state financial assistance for the implementation of soil-based practices that improve soil quality, increase crop production, and reduce erosion and agricultural waste discharges.  The FAP Program also encourages continued assistance for nutrient management plan update/maintenance and outreach on agricultural water quality impacts and agricultural water quality regulations through educational and instructional activity grants.

Conservation Practices eligible for assistance include:

• Nutrient Management Plan Maintenance/Update (at $3 per acre);
• Cover Cropping (at $30 per acre);
• Strip Cropping (at $50 per acre);
• Conservation Crop Rotation (at $25 per acre);
• Cross-Slope Tillage (at $10 per acre);
• Conservation Tillage (at $10 per acre); and
• Pre-Sidedress Nitrate Testing (at $8 per test).

Downloads:

Application for FAP (pdf)