Description
To support the production and marketing of climate-smart commodities by providing voluntary incentives to producers and landowners, including early adopters, to implement climate-smart agricultural production practices, activities, and systems on working lands; measure/quantify, monitor and verify the carbon and greenhouse gas (GHG) benefits associated with those practices; and develop markets and promote the resulting climate-smart commodities.
Elligibility
Establish Farm Records with the USDA Farm Service Agency
Complete an AD-2047 (Customer Data Worksheet to facilitate the collection of customer data for Business Partner Record)
Certify highly erodible land conservation and wetland conservation via Form AD-1026
Certify that they are not a foreign person
Certify that they are not receiving funds for the same practices on the same acreage from other government programs such as EQIP
Agree to share farm data to calculate emissions, and to calculate carbon sequestration associated with implemented climate-smart management practices
Equity: Applicants that self identify as Historically Underserved and/or Socially Disadvantaged are encouraged to apply. Underserved producers include socially disadvantaged farmers (minorities), military veteran farmers, and limited resource farmers.
Available Funding
$2,600,000
Length of Contracts
3 Year Contracts
Cost-share requirements?
NA
Required Documentation (prove ownership/lease arrangements)
They will need to certify via Form AD-1026, confirm that they are not a foreign person, certify that they are not receiving funds for the same practices on the same acreage from other government programs such as EQIP, and agree to share farm data to calculate emissions, and to calculate carbon sequestration associated with implemented climate-smart management practices.
Contact
Taylor Marshall @ taylormarshall@okconservation.org