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Report on Loans for On-Farm Conservation When the State Revolving Fund rolled out low-interest loans for farmers and livestock producers in 2005, no one knew whether they would be willing to borrow for conservation improvements. The conventional wisdom was that they needed grants or cost-share. Since the program began, farmers have borrowed more than $34 million to prevent sediment, chemicals and nutrients from polluting Iowa's streams and rivers. However, use of the loans has varied around the state and program managers wanted to know why. "We asked Iowa State University to study producers who took loans, versus those that didn't," said Bill Ehm, DNR coordinator for water quality. "We wanted to know the potential impacts of the loan program on Iowa's land and waters."
Read about the report's findings:
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