The department may award grants for projects undertaken by agricultural producers that are designed to do any of the following:

1. (1) Fund startup costs associated with: work planning, mission development, goal setting or learning days to have experts discuss conservation topics.
2. (2) Provide incentive payments to producers to implement conservation practices, such as soil testing, cover crops, nutrient and manure management planning, no-till, buffer strips, grassed waterways, manure composting, or low-disturbance manure injection.
3. (3) Measure and promote economic and environmental benefits of conservation practices.
4. (4) Perform nutrient management planning, training, and assessments.
5. (5) Develop innovative approaches to manure storage, stacking, or conservation equipment-sharing that increases and identifies economic and environmental benefits of such practices.
6. (6) Increase voluntary producer and agribusiness participation in a watershed through education and outreach activities such as hosting conferences, workshops, or field days.
7. (7) Collaborate with partners for on-farm research that identifies economic and environmental benefits and opportunities of utilizing various conservation practices or strategies.
8. (8) Complete cost-effective edge-of-field and in-stream water quality monitoring.
9. (9) Perform farm assessments to evaluate farm, manure, and nutrient management practices and identify solutions to resource concerns.
10. (10) Other activities deemed by the department as consistent with the purpose of s. 93.59, Stats.

History

History: CR 16-049: cr. Register May 2017 No. 737, eff. 6-1-17; correction in (2), (4), (6) made under s. 35.17, Stats., Register May 2017 No. 737.