Cost sharing and multi-agency participation may help address your needs and increase your profit margins. Beginning Farmer Program Financial incentives, including down payment assistance and interest rate buy down, for real estate purchases by producers who qualify for either the North Dakota First Time Farmer Finance Program or the Beginning Farmer Real Estate Loan Program. Habitat Plot Program Varying acreage habitat plot projects are readily available. Six-year agreement with renewal option. Wildlife Food Plots Cost sharing and free seed is available to establish food Wildlife Food plots for winter wildlife food.
Money is available to lease and establish food plot acres.
Preferred size is 4-10 acres. Contracts currently limited to the Devils Lake Basin. Ten year agreement. Length of agreement 10 to 20 years. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service North Dakota Wildlife Extension Program Eighty percent cost share for seed and seeding to convert cropland to grassland.