Agricultural Management Assistance Program

Agricultural Management Assistance (AMA) provides cost share assistance to agricultural producers to voluntarily address issues such as water management, water quality, and erosion control by incorporating conservation into their farming operations. Producers may construct or improve water management structures or irrigation structures; seed fields to permanent vegetation.

Applications are accepted on a continuous basis; however, NRCS will offer three ranking periods with the following closing dates: February 3, March 30, and June 1, 2012. Landowners may submit applications any time throughout the year.

Sign-ups are conducted at USDA Service Centers.  

Some of the following documents require Adobe Acrobat.

General Program Description Documents

• AMA Sign-Up Announcement
• AMA Application (85 KB)
• AMA Eligible Practices Summary (45 KB) (HTML version) (COMING SOON)
• AMA Ranking Tool Summary (17 KB) (HTML version) (COMING SOON)
• AMA Eligibility Matrix (44 KB)  (HTML version)
• AMA Fact Sheet (61 KB)
• Connecticut AMA Success Story #1 (235 KB) (HTML version)
• Connecticut AMA Success Story #2 (265 KB) (HTML version)

National Program Information

• National AMA Program Information

Contact

Joyce Purcell
Assistant State Conservationist-Programs
Phone: (860) 871-4028

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Last Modified: 12/02/2011