Agricultural Management Assistance

The current cut-off date for AMA applications is January 15, 2010. Applications are accepted year-round, but are ranked and funded periodically.

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.

In Massachusetts, cost-share is available to producers for drought mitigation. Program participants may develop or improve sources of irrigation water supply, construct new or reorganize irrigation delivery systems on existing cropland to mitigate the risk of drought. Incentive payments are available to encourage producers to adopt irrigation water management.

Bay State farmers are encouraged to sign-up for AMA by May 15th. For more information, contact your local NRCS office or USDA Service Center, listed in the telephone book under U.S. Department of Agriculture, or on the web at http://offices.usda.gov. Additional information about NRCS programs in Massachusetts can be found at www.ma.nrcs.usda.gov.

AMA, administered by NRCS, is a voluntary conservation program available in states where participation in the Federal Crop Insurance Program is historically low. Massachusetts is one of 15 states that will receive a total $14 million in AMA funding this fiscal year.

Additional Information

These documents are available in Acrobat Reader format.

Approved Practice List
Cranberry Ranking
Data Collection Worksheet
Ranking Irrigation and Planning
AMA in Massachusetts brochure

• National AMA information

AMA News and Features

• AMA project is part of Appleton Farms’ farming legacy
  

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