Fire-impacted farmers, ranchers to get funding

USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Service is now accepting applications from agricultural producers statewide who were impacted by wildfires in 2014 or 2015. Financial assistance is offered through the Wildfire Initiative of the Environmental Quality Incentives Program to help address resource concerns on private and tribal land. The deadline for applications is Friday, February 19, 2016.

NRCS will offer five financial assistance options:

Option one offers assistance with prescribed and deferred grazing on privately operated grazing land with recent grazing history that was burned by a wil...