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"Farm Bill" Programs
Renewable Energy Systems and Energy Efficiency Improvements
Incentive: Low-interest loans, loan guarantees and grants.
Summary: Allows direct financial assistance to farmers, ranchers and rural small businesses for the purchase of renewable energy systems.
Value-Added Agricultural Product Market Development
Incentive: Grants; maximum amount $500,000
Summary: Competitive grants to assist producers of value-added agricultural products, including renewable energy systems, to develop feasibility studies, business plans and marketing plans.
Conservation Reserve Program
Incentive: CRP payments.
Summary: Wind turbine installations are allowed on Conservation Reserve Program lands with no reduction in CRP payments, subject to USDA approval.
More information is available from the USDA.
DNR Contact
Jim Bodensteiner
(515) 281-8416
Jim.Bodensteiner@dnr.state.ia.us
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