Accepting applications for incentive program that will be allocating nearly $40 million to incentivize adoption of climate-smart practices, which also benefit soil health and sustainability on working lands.

Here is a short video: https://youtu.be/WW-8XAvMaXw

TCSI program highlights

• Provides incentives to adopt climate-smart practices (e.g., no-till, cover cropping, forest management, manure management, etc.) to commodity producers
  • Incentive payments will be comparable or beat EQIP for our selected practices
  • Incentives cannot be duplicated on the same land at the same time for the same practice (but incentives can be added, for example if you receive federal EQIP for cover cropping, but not no-till, you could add no-till)
  • Incentives can be applied to practices that are already adopted
• Application is expression of interest (climatesmart@tamu.edu) not enrollment. The management plan will be developed specifically for your land, and plan and incentive payment structure will be provided in the enrollment agreement.
  • No risk to apply
• Land must be located in the state of Texas
• Multi-commodity, multi-practice, and multi-year (3-4 year) contracts
• Applicants can own or lease land
• Enrollment starts in April until funds are allocated

Questions call (979-314-8095) or email climatesmart@ag.tamu.edu