Can we cost share on wooden fencing for horse pastures?
No, EQIP cost share is available only on three kinds of fences per the Fence Practice Standardstandard (non-electrified), suspension (non-electrified), and permanent electric fences (high tensile wire). Woven wire is usually appropriate for horse fences. Typically plastic or some other material is added as a visual indicator of the fence. If the EQIP applicant wants to add wooden boards to the wire fencing, the cost share money cannot be used to pay for the wooden boards and the fence has to be constructed to Illinois NRCS standards practice code 382, as a minimum.
