Environmental Quality Incentives Program in Vermont

EQIP and Vermont as an intersection, not a farm directory

CFDA 10.912 is titled ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY INCENTIVES PROGRAM. Filtered to Vermont place of performance, obligations sum to $61,331,486.15 on 1,190 awards. The national Environmental Quality Incentives Program hub includes every other state. Vermont federal spending includes every other program. This tie is only the intersection.

A high award count usually means many relatively small instruments rather than a handful of state-pass-through rows. That pattern still does not name producers, tracts, or conservation practices. Packet facts stop at Vermont, CFDA 10.912, $61,331,486.15, and 1,190 awards. Do not invent contractors, farms, or award recipients.

An obligation is not an outlay. The packet publishes no fiscal year, so $61,331,486.15 cannot be treated as a single crop-year appropriation. Correlation between Vermont geography and EQIP coding is not evidence that water quality, soil health, or wildlife habitat improved.

10.912 is not Conservation Reserve in Vermont

Conservation Reserve Program and other USDA conservation catalogs sit on different CFDA numbers. Mixing those dollars into $61,331,486.15 would invent a broader total than this 10.912 × VT cell contains. Facts available: Vermont, CFDA 10.912, $61,331,486.15, 1,190 awards. The program name on the packet is Environmental Quality Incentives Program.

Dividing $61,331,486.15 by 1,190 yields about $51,538 per award. That average is an implied mean of recorded instruments, not a typical practice cost and not a median. Unique recipients are unpublished. 1,190 is a record count, not a count of Vermont farms, acres, or contracts still open.

Questions

How much EQIP funding is obligated in Vermont?

USAspending.gov shows $61,331,486.15 in CFDA 10.912 obligations coded to Vermont across 1,190 awards. The join uses the program number and Vermont place of performance. The total is obligations, not outlays. Keep Environmental Quality Incentives Program and Vermont together when citing $61,331,486.15.

Is EQIP the same as the Conservation Reserve Program in Vermont?

No. This cell is CFDA 10.912 only. Conservation Reserve and other USDA conservation catalogs are other numbers. Mixing those dollars would invent a total larger than $61,331,486.15. 1,190 is a record count, not a farm census.

Does 1,190 awards mean 1,190 Vermont farms?

1,190 is a USAspending award-record count, not a farm, acre, or practice census. The implied mean is about $51,538 per award. Unique recipients are unpublished. Obligations of $61,331,486.15 are not outlays. Packet facts stop at $61,331,486.15, 1190 awards, VT, and 10.912. Place of performance is a geography tag, not a roster of named recipients.

Do these obligations equal conservation payments already issued?

No. $61,331,486.15 is an obligation sum. Outlays are a different USAspending series. This packet has no acre or practice count. Keep the obligation label when citing the 10.912 × VT pair. Keep the obligation label on $61,331,486.15 and name both Environmental Quality Incentives Program and Vermont. Original filings for CFDA 10.912 remain on USAspending.gov.