The Utah Grazing Improvement Program (GIP) from the Utah Department of Agriculture and Food is a program focused on helping Utah ranchers to improve grazing lands. Projects can include any restoration work that will improve rangeland/pasture health, productivity, and management. Examples: elimination of invasive species, reseeding, livestock water development and improvements, fencing, grazing management planning, brush management, and any other project that improves watershed and rangeland health/production while improving the profitability of Utah livestock producers.
The Enabling Act that created GIP has lefislative intent that the producer will pay a portion of any project. If a project is approved that has no other cost share, GIP can pay up to 50% of the cvost on private land and 75% on public land. If another entity such as te Natural Resource Conservation Service, Bureau of Land Management , The Utah Department of Agriculture and Food, or Utah Partners for Conservation and Development are partricipants in a project , GIP can cost share not to preclude the producers from paying at least 25% on private land and 12.5% on public land. Producer participation can be in cash or in-kind.