Virginia Agricultural Cost-Share Program (VACS)

The Virginia Agricultural Best Management Practices Cost-share Program (VACS) is administered by the Virginia Department of Conservation and Recreation (DCR) through local Soil and Water Conservation Districts (District or SWCD). The program’s goal is to improve and protect water quality in the state's streams, rivers, and the Chesapeake Bay. The program offers cost share assistance as an incentive to carry out construction or implementation of selected Best Management Practices (BMPs). The basis of the program is to encourage the voluntary installation of agricultural BMPs to meet Virginia's non-point source pollution reduction water quality objectives. Although resource based problems affecting water quality occur on all land this program promotes efforts for corrective action on agricultural lands only.

BMPs include:  

• Stream exclusion with grazing land management

•  Cover crop

• 

• Nutrient management plan

• Split application of nitrogen

Additional VACS Program Information

Clean Water Farm Awards

Home/About Us/Directors/Contact Us/Education/Links/Programs/Newsletters