H1N1 Done & EQIP Sign Up
H1N1 Done & EQIP Sign Up. I’m Greg Martin with today’s Northwest Report.
It appears that hog prices on the Chicago Merchantile Exchange have turned around – reacting to the apparent turn-a-round in the 2009 H1N1 virus problem. This week’s price advances have stopped the slide previously experienced. Schools once closed by the Influenza threat are now reopening and more people are experiencing the freedom to return to a more normal life. Unfortunately, there has been a death. The victim was a young female school teacher with what
May 11 is the start of sign up for a new organics initiative administered through USDA's Environmental Quality Incentives Program. USDA Deputy Secretary Kathleen Merrigan explains.
MERRIGAN: Hopefully everyone in the farm community has heard of the Environmental Quality Incentives Program, EQIP. Technical assistance and money to help farmers be better environmental stewards on their land. NRCS, the Natural Resources Conservation Service is the agency at USDA that’s distributing these funds for this pot of money - $50 million dollars – to be used in this fiscal year which ends September 30, 2009. And all of the requirements for applying are found on their website. You can go to the local NRCS office and of course there will be people there to help you because if you are a first time applicant to the program you want to get it right.
Now here’s today’s Washington Grange Report.
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That’s today’s Northwest Report. I’m Greg Martin on the Northwest Ag Information Network.
