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Kentucky
At-a-Glance
FY 2008

 

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Fiscal Year 2008

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Program Accomplishments

Farm Bill Funding Provided to Landowners:
CSP - $324,100
EQIP - $15.1 million
WHIP - $1.4 million
WRP - $4.2 million
Technical Assistance - $22.82 million



 Contracts and Covered Land

CSP – 7 contracts - 14,244 acres
EQIP – 648 contracts - 72,991 acres
WHIP – 130 contracts - 6,823 acres
WRP – 17 easements - 1800 acres


 Successful Partnerships

NRCS has cooperative agreements with the Department for Fish and Wildlife Resources (KDFWR) and the Division of Conservation (DOC). Fifteen KDFWR and 25 DOC employees assist NRCS in planning and implementing Farm Bill Programs.

Resource Conservation and Development had 104 approved projects worth $3.2 million and covering 94,816 acres.

State Cost-Share funded 2,650 applications for a total of $10.6 million

Graphic of Staffing Trends 2002 through 2008 see text immediately below

Funding and Staffing Trends by Year

YEAR

2002

2003

2004

2005

2006

2007

2008

TA Allocation

$20,747,755

$26,080,418

$27,116,467

$26,875,804

$24,424,521

$22,394,538

$22,827,678

FA Allocation

$3,609,300

$6,470,217

$7,813,625

$23,016,910

$18,367,338

$21,119,434

$25,624,589

Staff Years

250.83

250.92

265.66

269.36

245.76

235.29

229.34

Eighteen percent decrease in Staffing over the past decade
1996       281 Actual employees
2002       251 Full time equivalent
2008       230 Full time equivalent

Customer Service

32,789 Brief Technical Assistance Customers
2,572 Practices planned
1,986 Practices implemented
5,310 Conservation Plans written on 438,059 acres
4,633 Conservation Plans applied on 331,756 acres

 

 

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