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Conservation division details Ag Water Optimization savings, asks to transfer restricted funds

Natural Resources, Agriculture and Environmental Quality Appropriations Subcommittee · January 26, 2026

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Summary

Officials said Ag Water Optimization projects have produced more than 100,000 acre‑feet of diversion savings and that the department seeks a $34.5 million transfer from a restricted account to continue funding projects; AGVIP and the Leary McAllister farmland conservation program also requested additional support.

Jim Boca, director of the Conservation Division at the Utah Department of Agriculture and Food, presented program metrics and funding requests for a suite of conservation programs.

Boca demonstrated a new Ag Water Optimization dashboard showing 689 projects funded with 337 completed and reported approximately $149 million obligated toward projects.…

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