CHARLESTON, W.Va. — The West Virginia Conservation Agency is reaching out to farmers in West Virginia that have been paying additional costs because of recent drought conditions.
According to a Wednesday release, all in-state residents are eligible to receive cost-share funding from their local conservation districts.
Cost-share reimbursements will help farmers recover a portion of the cost they had to pay out of pocket for things such as temporary fence, livestock water supply, revegetation of feeding areas, cover crop establishment and irrigation water supply.
For a district to be eligible, a portion of a county within the district had to have been designated a “D1” or higher on the U.S. Drought Monitor. If any county in the district had this classification, any county within the district is eligible for cost-share funding. According to the Conservation Agency, every district in the state had at least one county with a D1 classification or higher.
The contact for each district can be found below.
• Barbour, Randolph, Taylor, Tucker and Upshur counties are in the Tygarts Valley Conservation District, which can be reached at: (304) 457-3026.
• Berkeley, Jefferson and Morgan counties are within the Eastern Panhandle Conservation District, which can be reached at: (304) 263-4376.
• Boone, Cabell, Lincoln, Logan, Mingo and Wayne counties are within the Guyan Conservation District, which can be reached at: (304) 528-5718.
• Braxton, Clay, Nicholas and Webster counties are within the Elk Conservation District, which can be reached at: (304) 765-2535.
• Brooke, Hancock, Marshall and Ohio counties are within the Northern Panhandle Conservation District, which can be reached at: (304) 238-1231.
• Calhoun, Ritchie, Roane, Wirt and Wood counties are within the Little Kanawha Conservation District, which can be reached at: (304) 422-9088.
• Doddridge, Gilmer, Harrison and Lewis counties are within the West Fork Conservation District, which can be reached at: (304) 627-2160.
• Fayette, McDowell, Mercer, Raleigh, Summers and Wyoming counties are in the Southern Conservation District, which can be reached at: (304) 253-0261.
• Grant, Hampshire, Hardy, Mineral and Pendleton counties are within the Potomac Valley Conservation District, which can be reached at: (304) 822-5174.
• Greenbrier, Monroe and Pocahontas counties are within the Greenbrier Valley Conservation District, which can be reached at: (304) 645-6173.
• Jackson, Mason and Putnam counties are in the Western Conservation District, which can be reached at: (304) 675-3054.
• Kanawha County is within the Capitol Conservation District, which can be reached at: (304) 759-0736.
• Marion, Monongalia and Preston counties are in the Monongahela Conservation District, which can be reached at: (304) 296-0081.
• Pleasants, Tyler and Wetzel counties are within the Upper Ohio Conservation District, which can be reached at: (304) 758-2512.