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Idaho Soil and Water Conservation Commission offers low interest loans to ag community • Idaho Capital Sun [1]
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Date: 2025-07
The Idaho Soil and Water Conservation Commission is encouraging farmers and ranchers to participate in its low interest loan program for conservation projects on agricultural lands.
Loans of up to $600,000 per project are available through the Resource Conservation and Rangeland Development program, with interest rates in the 3% to 5% range, depending on the terms, the Idaho Soil and Water Conservation Commission said.
“Our low-interest loan program has helped hundreds of growers make conservation improvements,” Terry Hoebelheinrich, loan officer for the Idaho Soil and Water Conservation Commission, said in a written statement. “We want to make sure that all of our farmers and ranchers in the state know that our loan program exists and is open and available for applications. We have significant resources available to assist producers across the state.”
Wayne Hungate, an agriculture producer in Canyon County, used a low interest loan to finance a new sprinkler system. The commission said the project allowed Hungate to double the capacity of his private pasture lands and double the capacity of his cattle herd.
“I could not have made those improvements without the Commission’s loan program,” Hungate said in a written statement. “It’s been a fun one – I’ve always wanted to try intensive grazing techniques on my own, and it’s been working really well.”
Potential projects that can be financed through the low interest loan program include irrigation systems, minimum till and no till drills, livestock fences, stockwater systems for pastures and grazing land, conservation improvements to livestock feeding operations, culvert replacement, hard rock stream crossings and more, the commission said.
To apply to participate in the low interest loan program, farmers or ranchers should develop a conservation plan with the commission’s assistance that identifies a resource problem and a solution. A local soil and conservation district will then review and rank the plans. Officials said the conservation plan submitted for the application can be a simple, one page plan.
Ag operators interested in more information about the low interest loan program may email or call Hoebelheinrich at [email protected] or 208-332-1793.
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