Contact the Private Land Conservationist (PLC) for your county.
School me up
I recently just purchased 60 acre for strictly hunting purposes and was wondering what steps I could start to hit the ground running with habitat projects. I already have a plan in place that will require some dozer work (maybe the permanent forest opening cost share?) and also about 15 acres of TSI for bedding. How does one going about getting MDC or USDA cost sharing??
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^^^ what he said.
Cover, cover and cover then food.
Cover, cover and cover then food.
Yep, start with your plc. They'll know what cost share programs are avaiable & will be able to help you get signed up
Is there a certain time of year that you can sign up for these programs?
You're PLC will be able to get you that information. I'd make contact with them sooner than later & set an appointment to meet you at your farm for a walk through & write a habitat plan.Is there a certain time of year that you can sign up for these programs?
If you want TSI cost share, you'll have to sign up for EQUIP & have a forest plan written first. They'll cost share the forest inventory in the EQUIP
I'm not seeing anything on MDC about EQUIP.. Can you give some more info on that @pinwheel
Maybe a program through the Feds. We got our forestry plan written by the MDC when they still done it. So I didn't have to sign up for EQUIP. Now it's done by private contractors which is why the EQUIP is my understanding.I'm not seeing anything on MDC about EQUIP.. Can you give some more info on that @pinwheel
Thanks @pinwheel.
Plant Oaks Trees and Fruit Trees.Create Bedding cover everywhere you can.Leave the good oaks.Get rid of non-useful trees.After that on 60 acres you should have 6-12 acres (I would plant 2 really good size 6 acre fields) of food year round for your deer.Soybeans and Clover for the summer,soybeans will then carry you into winter.Before season you can add brassicas and winter wheat to your soybeans.Congrats on the land purchase.The right 60 acres can be a killer property.Anyway that’s just some suggestions there is so much you can do with land,good luck
The 60 has a very good population of deer, but I am trying to get to where I have the best food and cover in the area. Just trying to take a little off the cost of having the dozer come out. Any more info is always appreciated!! Once the project goes underway I will keep everyone updated!
Getting a plan developed can be done most of the year. There are deadlines for getting plans approved for cost share and practices completed after approved. Some practices have other deadlines for ecological impacts such as bat trees not being cut at certain times of the year ect. Your PLC can really help you.Is there a certain time of year that you can sign up for these programs?
Signup for EQIP (NRCS ie fed cost share) is in mid November if I remember right. You can also do MDC cost share, its a little more flexible but pays less. Also have CSP which pays annual stuff and pays the best. PLC is the go to for all of that.
What county is the 60 in?
Stone County
Hopefully it butts up against 'The Proving Grounds.'Stone County
I'm Jay Luss.
You know you sound like I did when I first bought land for hunting ..the fact is that after a lengthy on site inspection by the MDC PLC agent ..a few verbal ideas voiced by him during the tour were intriguing ...and the full Monty review ..based on my wishes for the land utilization combined with what the land itself had to offer the plan was amazing .. 3 wildlife ponds cost shared ...CP33 program cost shared ...filter strip crp cost shared ...reforestation of poor ground cost shared ... and the real kicker ..timber burns that create outstanding low browse/ground cover cost shared ...not to mention the cost share TSI (timber stand improvement)
Perhaps the PLC folks might oughta take a look see first.. You might just be bulldozing away opportunity ..just maybe
Bear
Perhaps the PLC folks might oughta take a look see first.. You might just be bulldozing away opportunity ..just maybe
Bear
We've owned our place for 15 years & from year one, we've been enrolled in one cost share or crp program or another. Last year, we signed up for CSP. We've had general crp, cp33, tree planting programs, have TSI'd every acre on our farm, had a cost share pond built, Whip program one year.You know you sound like I did when I first bought land for hunting ..the fact is that after a lengthy on site inspection by the MDC PLC agent ..a few verbal ideas voiced by him during the tour were intriguing ...and the full Monty review ..based on my wishes for the land utilization combined with what the land itself had to offer the plan was amazing .. 3 wildlife ponds cost shared ...CP33 program cost shared ...filter strip crp cost shared ...reforestation of poor ground cost shared ... and the real kicker ..timber burns that create outstanding low browse/ground cover cost shared ...not to mention the cost share TSI (timber stand improvement)
Perhaps the PLC folks might oughta take a look see first.. You might just be bulldozing away opportunity ..just maybe
Bear
Doing fast math, because we've worked with our PLC all these years, these programs have paid for approx 50% of the original price we paid for our farm.
Control burn the whole place in fevruary.
Then start planting persimmons
Then start planting persimmons
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