INCENTIVE PAYMENTS

Manual

AVERAGE COSTS

for

AGRICULTURE COST S&E

PROGRAM

PROGRAM YEARS 1997

1999

A.

INCENTIVE PAYMENTS

.00 per acre per year

Conservation

I.

(see Practice Guidelines,

Section

Conservation

for Tobacco, Cabbage

II.

and Tomatoes

.00 per acre

1st year planting

a.

(5 acre limit)

1st year planting

.00 per acre

(all acres in excess

of 5 acres)

.00 per- acre

2nd and 3rd year plantings

(no acreage limit)

.00 per acre

Long Term No-till

III.

Sod-based Rotation

IV.

.00 per acre

sod-based rotation

a.

months in sod)

.00 per acre

sod-based rotation

b.

(29 months in sod)

.00 per acre

sod-based rotation

C.

months in sod)

.00 per

Stripcropping

$ 6.00 per acre

Nutrient Management

VI.

This incentive payment is to be added to the cost share

available under component B. I., Stripcropping.

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July 1997