The Press-Dispatch
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D-4 Pike County Planter SWCD Newsletter Quarter 1, 2019 The Press-Dispatch Precision starts with the meter. Head to the field with confidence knowing yours has been inspected annually by the dealer that specializes in your planter. Schedule your inspection today! We now have the capability to run ANY brand of meter! www.BLESCHBROS.com www.BLESCHBROSODON.com 8250 E SR 58, ODON 812-636-4050 WE SERVICE WHAT WE SELL! Equipment Company Spring 2019 Kinze Parts Sale • Jan. 2–Feb. 28 PLUS: Receive an ADDITIONAL 10% OFF these parts during our February Parts Discount Week • Feb. 18-23! HWY 161, HOLLAND 812-536-3486 STOCK UP and SAVE BIG! Contact our service department to schedule a PRE-SEASON PLANTER INSPECTION FIELD READY? Start with your KINZE Planter Experts! NOW THROUGH MARCH 31, 2019 Bring in your meter for us to test for $ 30 EACH! * Price will be $35 each after March 31, 2019. * Meter test only. Does not include brush or repairs. $ 18 75 /row This is the amount for travel to farm and inspection only. Parts and repairs not included. The SWCD continued its successful streak in grants by securing over $60,000 in cost share funding and techni- cal assistance made available to Pike County landowners and producers. Through partnerships with other SWCDs, partner agencies and private companies, the SWCD works endlessly to provide cost share funding for the county and encourages landowners or producers who are interested in conser vation assistance to contact the office to see if funding is available for them. Here is a list of 2018 grants: Walton Family Foundation Grant - this grant was funded with the assistance of The Nature Conser vancy. Focusing on the Wabash River watershed, the grant made cost share funding available to 11 counties in southwest Indiana, including Pike. This one-year-only grant helped fund 1,183 acres of cost share for a total of $23,660. Dupont/Dow AgroSciences Grant – this is another grant that was able to be funded with the assistance of The Nature Conser vancy. It focused solely on Pike County and made cost share funding available in the amount of $24,220 on 1,211 acres. Again, only a one-year grant, but the SWCD hopes to secure another one for 2019. 319 Middle Patoka Watershed Implementation Grant – ser ving its second year of a three-year grant, the Middle Patoka Watershed (MPW) Implementation Grant is a federal grant that provides cost share funding to a certain critical area in Middle Patoka Watershed. This is the second round of grant funding for the MPW, with the first grant finishing up at the end of 2016. The current MPW grant extends until the end of 2019 and provides conser vation assistance and funding for a variety of BMPs if the land is located within the critical area. Julie Loehr ser ves as the MPW Coordinator and can be reached at Julie.loehr@in.nacdnet.net to discuss potential funding opportunities. 319 Lower East Fork White River Watershed Development and Implementation Grant – 2019 will see a new federal 319 program with Pike SWCD being lead on the new round of BMP funding. The Lower East Fork White River Watershed, or other wise known as the LEF White, covers portions of Pike, Dubois, Daviess and Martin counties. Funding for this grant will focus on a watershed management plan where a critical area will be designated and then cost share funding will be available to those who have land in the critical area. Stay tuned for more details as this grant develops. Clean Water Indiana Grant – with Vanderburgh County SWCD ser ving as lead, and partnering with Pike, Gibson, Posey, Warrick and Vanderburgh SWCDs, the partnership submitted a strong grant application for a 2018 Clean Water Indiana grant that would allow the five counties to hire an Invasive Technician. With the grant approved and funded, the SWCDs eagerly got to work promoting that technical assistance was available to help identify and develop a plan of attack to combat the growing problem of invasive plants in our woodland areas. While the grant is in transition to a new invasive technician after the first hire unfortunately moved to another position, the SWCDs look for ward to educating the public on invasives with a technician on staff to take the technical assistance to the next level. SWCD has another successful year securing multiple grants