Farmers are being reminded of some conservation program deadlines coming up this December. Shawnee Sheehan, Resource Conservationist with the Warren County Soil and Water Conservation District explains
“If anybody has put anything into the Partners for Conservation Program—which is my state-funded program through the Illinois Department of Agriculture—all of those invoices and paperwork are due to the state on December 15. So I’m requesting that anybody send in their invoices well before that, hopefully within the first week or so of December,” says Sheehan. “If you have a cover crop that was put on this fall, you can also bring those invoices to me. I do have some blank application forms, and we’re always taking those; I never shut those down. Any additional money that we have after we pay out our currently allocated projects would then go to cover crop applications.”
Sheehan says even without an application on file, farmers may still qualify for cover-crop funding, so she urges them to bring in invoices and seed tags to secure potential dollars.
