South Carolina Small Scale Farmer Assistance

The Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP) offers assistance to small scale farmers and landowners who have historically not participated in nor ever ranked high enough to be selected for an EQIP contract.  Small farmers often do not have the resources or size to compete with larger operations and therefore do not score high enough in the competitive ranking process to qualify for the program.

Assistance is available to landowners and producers with an entire farming operation consisting of 197 acres or less (a 5% variance is allowed).

Eligibility is also based on annual adjusted gross family income of $63,000 or less based on the last 2 years income tax returns (a 5% variance is allowed).

 

Archived Information

The following documents require Adobe Acrobat and Microsoft Excel

Small Scale Farmer Assistance in South Carolina-- 2007 Guidelines (40 KB)  NEW!
Small Scale Farmer Ranking Document (7 KB)   NEW!
2006 Small Farm Initiative Guidelines  (38 KB)
2006 South Carolina Small Farm Initiative Ranking Sheet (25 KB)
2006 Small Farm Initiative Program Cost List (19 KB)
2006 Applicant Self-Certification (29 KB)
Small Farm Initiative News Release--January 2006 (30 KB)
Small Farm Initiative 5-Year Cost Analysis (41 KB)
 

Related Information

• Small, Limited Resource, and Beginning Farmer Assistance 

Program Contact

Wilfred Pace
Small Farmer Liaison
(803) 253-3314

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