Programs
Latex Paint Disposal https://acrobat.adobe.com/id/urn:aaid:sc:VA6C2:6b69df6f-4fa3-4821-91b5-81f128c05b69
2024 Drinking Water Testing Program https://acrobat.adobe.com/id/urn:aaid:sc:VA6C2:96492bbb-142c-4464-baef-a1ca1349c5c8
2025 Virtual Nutrient Managment Training for Farmers January 10, 2025 OR March 14, 2025 https://acrobat.adobe.com/id/urn:aaid:sc:VA6C2:a3da66e4-0250-4350-aafb-8d8121f8691f
Farmland Preservation / Working Land Initiative
Current Farmland Preservation contracts will be honored throughout the life of the contract. After expiration, please contact the office for more information or check out the links below.
DATCP - Farmland Preservation Program
Farmland Preservation Zoning
Currently three Townships in Crawford County have Certified Farmland Preservation Zoning Districts. These are the Townships of: Freeman, Haney and Utica. State residents with land in these Townships can qualify for the $7.50 per acre tax credit if they meet all requirements.
Soil & Water Resource Management (SWRM) Cost Share Program
Each year DATCP allocates a certain amount of funds to provide cost sharing in Crawford County. Since the dollar amount of the grant is relatively small in comparison to the amount of cost share requests, the LCPZ has set a limit of 50% - 70% cost sharing up to $7,000 of total cost share. Cost sharing is available for a variety of the traditional conservation practices used in Crawford County.
County Cost Share Application
Waste Storage Closure
Grade Stabilization Structure
Waterway
Streambank Stabilization
Well Abandonment
Cattle Lanes
Access Roads
Diversion
Livestock Watering Facility
Stream Crossing
Nutrient Management Planning
Nutrient Management is a way for Wisconsin farmers to ensure that their crops get the right source of nutrients at the right rate, time and place to match crop needs and minimize nutrient losses from fields. Nutrient management requires soil testing, record-keeping, crop management planning, and meeting state and federal standards.
Cost-sharing is available to implement a nutrient management plan.
Nutrient Management Application
DATCP Nutrient Management-General Info
Nutrient Management Software
Manure Application Maps
Environmental Quality Incentives Program
The Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP) is a voluntary conservation program offered through the USDA-Natural Resources Conservation Service. It supports production agriculture and environmental quality as compatible goals. Through EQIP, farmers may receive financial and technical help with structural and management conservation practices on agricultural land.
USDA - Environmental Quality Incentives Program Website
Wildlife Damage
Wisconsin has a program that assists farmers when wildlife damages their agricultural crops. The Wildlife Damage Abatement and Claims Program (WDACP) provides damage prevention assistance and partial compensation to farmers when wild deer, elk, bear, geese and turkeys damage their agricultural crops.
Wildlife managers issue agricultural damage shooting permits to farmers for removal of deer -- and occasionally bear, geese and turkeys -- that cause damage.
Ag Damage Information
Damaging and Nuisance Wildlife
Other Useful Links
Wisconsin Department of Ag, Trade, & Consumer Protection (WDATCP)
Wisconsin Land & Water
Farm Service Agency (FSA)
USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS)
WI DNR Wells
National Association of Conservation Districts (NACD)
Crawford County Land & Water Resource Management Plan
To review the plan, please click the link below.
2016-2025 LWRM PLAN
Crawford County Farmland Preservation Plan
To review the plan, please click the link below.
FARMLAND PRESERVATION PLAN