Landowner Feedback Form
The one-tenth-of-one-percent parks, soils and water sales tax is used to fund efforts to help protect the soil from erosion and improve water quality. The tax was renewed by voters of the state of Missouri in 2006. Roughly $24 million is available to Missouri landowners from this tax. The Soil and Water Districts Commission has asked each soil and water conservation district to do a needs assessment so the cost-share dollars can be more accurately allocated to meet landowners' needs.
The McDonald SWCD is in the process of writing a needs assessment as it pertains to cost-share dollars for conservation practices. This needs assessment will be submitted to the state Soil and Water Districts Commission to assist in determining our district’s cost-share dollar allotment for next year. We have attached the entire listing of all regular and special area land treatment (SALT) cost-share practices that could be available statewide. These practices are grouped into what resource concern they address when installed. The board of supervisors would like to know where cost-share for these conservation practices is needed in the county. We also want to find out what types of practices landowners need to address resource problems. Please take time to either circle or mark the practices that you are interested in and mail or e-mail back this form. You may also call the office with your information or stop in the office and let us know what practices you could use to fix the resource concerns on your land. The goal of this is to tell the state commission exactly how many landowners want to do cost-share practices. We also want to tell them what practices the landowners need, the estimated costs and potential soil savings, and water quality impact that can be achieved through cost-share. If you would like more information on a certain practice or this process, feel free to contact our office at 417-451-1007, ext 3, or by e-mail at tracy.white@swcd.mo.gov.
LANDOWNER SURVEY | |||||
Please Return By April 1, 2016 | |||||
Resource Concern and Cost-Share Practice | Unit | Year One (July 1, 2016 through June 30, 2017) Acres or sites to be Treated | Year Two (July 1, 2016- June 30, 2017) Acres or Sites to be Treated | Year 3 -5 (July 1, 2017- June 30, 2020) Acres or Sites to be Treated | |
Sheet and Rill Erosion | Acres of land suffering from sheet and rill erosion | ||||
Seeding crop ground to permanent grass or interseeding legumes into established grass | acres | ||||
Terrace Systems | acres | ||||
Windbreaks for crop ground | acres | ||||
No-Till Systems | acres | ||||
Gully Erosion | Number of active gully sites that need to be addressed | ||||
Grading, shaping and seeding | each | ||||
Diversions | each | ||||
Pond | each | ||||
Dry hole structures | each | ||||
Sod Waterways | each | ||||
Woodland Erosion | Number of acres that are in woodlands that are suffering from erosion | ||||
Planting trees to protect a specific area | acres | ||||
Fencing livestock out of woods | acres | ||||
Exclude all use from a wooded area | acres | ||||
Implementing a timber harvest plan ( Forest Only) | acres | ||||
Restoration of skid trails, logging roads, stream crossings and log landings** (Forest Only) | each | ||||
Irrigation Management | Number of acres that are managed by the irrigation systems | ||||
Renozzling a center pivot | acres | ||||
Irrigation System, Surface and Subsurface (surge valve and flat tubing) | acres | ||||
Reusing surface water runoff for irrigation | acres | ||||
Irrigation Water Conveyance | acres | ||||
Water retention structure to reduce nutrient and chemical loading downstream | acres | ||||
Controlled Drainage Practice | acres | ||||
Sensitive Areas | Number of acres that will buffer or protect streams or fields | ||||
Field Border | acres | ||||
Filter Strip | acres | ||||
Establishing Riparian Forest Buffer | acres | ||||
Establish Windbreaks for protecting crop ground | acres | ||||
Excluding livestock from streams, Provide alternative water, does not require the planting of trees. | acres | ||||
Animal Waste Management | Number of Animal Waste Storage Systems | ||||
Beef Systems | each | ||||
Dairy Systems | each | ||||
Swine Systems | each | ||||
Poultry Systems | each | ||||
Nutrient Management | The number of acres that are protected by managing nutrients | ||||
Commercial Fertilizer Application | acres | ||||
Organic fertilizer application | acres | ||||
Pest Management | The number of acres that are protected by managing pests | ||||
Proper Pesticide application | acres | ||||
Ground Water Protection | The number of sites that will be developed to protect groundwater quality | ||||
Composting Facility | each | ||||
Incinerator | each | ||||
Fencing of Sinkhole areas | each | ||||
Spring Development | each | ||||
Well Decommissioning | each | ||||
Sinkhole Improvement (Only Perry, St. Genevieve and Cape Girardeau Counties) | each | ||||
Grazing Management | Number of acres that are put into a system to maximize forage use and availability | ||||
Interseeding Existing Pasture with legumes through no-tilling | acres | ||||
Planned Grazing System | acres | ||||
Planned Grazing System with a Pond | acres | ||||
Planned Grazing System with a Well | acres | ||||
Streambank Erosion | Number of feet are protected along the stream. | ||||
Stabilizing Streambank | feet | ||||