Conservation Outreach and Assistance to Historically Under-Served Arkansas Producers

Through this outreach project, the Arkansas Land and Community Development Corporation (ALCDC) will assign a trained staff member to serve as a field agent to NRCS District Conservationists throughout a 42 county service area while at the same time serving as a mentor to historically underserved producers. This project proposes to increase the number of new EQIP applications for historically underserved producers in each of the four service area regions, increase awareness of new technology applicable to the operation, work one-on-one with producers to create farm management plans, increase the long-term profitability for participants through farm/ranch improvements, and increase collective knowledge of sustainable agriculture throughout the service area by conducting quarterly workshops and training seminars in each region.