EQIP: Annotated Bibliography

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Literature on EQIP is quite limited. Adam P. Reimer and Linda S. Prokopy (2014) studied the participation in all of the farm bill conservation programs. Reimer and Prokopy’s research consisted of mixed-methods and was conducted in Mid-Western United States. Mail surveys was on method Reimer and Prokopy used. EQIP now ranks as the second largest conservation program. In 2010, over $1 billion dollars was spent on EQIP contracts.
The United States Government Accountability Office (GAO) conducted a study on EQIP. The goal of the study was to analyze if EQIP’s fund are providing the most environmental benefit to our lands. The following report reviews the distribution of EQIP’s funds for the fiscal years 2009 through 2015. Also, the study reviews NRCS’s process for distributing funds. During 2009 through 2015 fiscal years the NRCS distributed $5.7 billion dollars in EQIP contracts. According to the farm bill the NRCS must distribute 60 percent of their allotted funds on livestock practices such as prescribed grazing. However, according to GAO’s study the
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(n.d.). Retrieved October 01, 2017, from National Wildlife Federation website: https://www.nwf.org/~//media/PDF/wildlife /farm%20%20bill/NWF-2014-Farm-Bill-Analysis_final.pdf
Agricultural Act of 2014: Highlights and Implications. (n.d.). Retrieved October 01, 2017, https://www.ers.usda.gov/agricultural-act-of-2014-highlights-and-implications/
Agricultural Conservation USDA’s Environmental Quality Incentives Program Could Be Improved to Optimize Benefits. (2017). GAO Reports, 1.
Cover Crops and CAFOs: An Analysis of 2016 EQIP Spending. (2017, January 12). Retrieved October 01, 2017, from https://sustainableagriculture.net/blog/eqip-fy2016- analysis/
Johnson, R., % Monke, J. (2017, October 5). What is the Farm Bill? [PDF].
LLC, M. S. (n.d.). Lorain Soil & Water Conservation District. Retrieved October 01, 2017, from

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