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Find similar grantsAgricultural Best Management Practices Cost-Share Program is sponsored by Virginia Department of Environmental Quality. Offers financial assistance to landowners and operators to implement best management practices that reduce non-point source pollution in Virginia's waters.
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Agricultural BMP Cost-Share Program FY 2026 Overview Department of Conservation and Recreation Conserve. Protect. Enjoy.
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The funding is a $16 million increase over FY 2025 and marks the fourth straight year of record funding. The VACS program provides Virginia’s farmers with financial and technical assistance to implement conservation practices that protect water quality, improve soil health and support the long-term sustainability of agricultural operations across the Commonwealth.
Administered by the Department of Conservation and Recreation (DCR) in partnership with Virginia’s 47 Soil and Water Conservation Districts (SWCDs), the VACS program helps farmers offset the cost of implementing a wide range of best management practices, including: Nutrient management plans Livestock stream-exclusion systems Farmers can receive up to $300,000 in state cost-share reimbursement for over 60 best management practices.
Virginia’s SWCDs work directly with farmers to distribute cost-share funding from the VACS program and provide technical assistance for its implementation. Farmers interested in applying for funding should contact their local SWCDs. A map of local conservation districts and contact information can be found here .
The 2026 fiscal year begins July 1, 2025. Virginia Department of Conservation and Recreation 600 East Main Street, 24th floor | Richmond, VA 23219-2094 | Please send website comments to web@dcr. virginia.
gov Address general inquiries to pcmo@dcr. virginia. gov Last Modified: Wednesday, 29 April 2026, 01:09:33 PM DCR Organizational Chart (PDF) Executive Progress Report (PDF) Public Safety & Law Enforcement
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EPA is seeking insightful, expert, and cost-effective applications from eligible applicants to provide the Chesapeake Bay Program’s non-federal partners with technical analysis and programmatic evaluation support related to water quality modeling and monitoring and spatial systems to manage, analyze, and map environmental data. The project assists the partners in meeting their restoration and protection goals and in increasing the transfer of scientific understanding to the Chesapeake Bay Program modeling, monitoring, and Geographic Information Systems (GIS) activities. The recipient will support modeling, monitoring, and GIS programs needed to explain and communicate the health of and changes in the Chesapeake Bay ecosystem. Funding Opportunity Number: EPA-R3-CBP-23-18. Assistance Listing: 66.466. Funding Instrument: CA. Category: ENV. Award Amount: Up to $5.3M per award.
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