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Mulch-till – High Intensity Residue and Tillage Management – Irrigated Cropland, USDA – NRCS Conservation Practice Job Sheet ID- 345, JS- 19; USDA – NRCS Tillage Practice Guide; USDA – NRCS Residue Management Mulch-till, Alabama Guide Sheet AL 329B; USDA – NRCS Residue Management Mulch-till, Conservation Practice Job Sheet PA345
Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS), formerly known as the Soil Conservation Service (SCS), is an agency of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) that provides technical assistance to farmers and other private landowners and managers. Its name was changed in 1994 during the presidency of Bill Clinton to reflect its ...
Resource Management System, as defined in the United States' Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 (also known as the 2002 Farm Bill) (P.L. 107–171, Sec. 2001), is a system of conservation practices and management specified in the field office technical guide of the Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) which is designed to prevent resource degradation and permit sustained ...
Conservation technical assistance (CTA) has been the central activity of the Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) since it was established in 1936. NRCS field staff help landowners and farm operators plan and implement soil , water conservation , and water quality practices.
The Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) is a cost-share and rental payment program of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). Under the program, the government pays farmers to take certain agriculturally used croplands out of production and convert them to vegetative cover, such as cultivated or native bunchgrasses and grasslands, wildlife and pollinators food and shelter plantings ...
Contour plowing or contour farming is the farming practice of plowing and/or planting across a slope following its elevation contour lines. These contour line furrows create a water break, reducing the formation of rills and gullies during heavy precipitation and allowing more time for the water to settle into the soil. [ 1 ]
The program replaced the Agricultural Conservation Program, the Water Quality Incentives Program, the Great Plains Conservation Program, and the Colorado River Basin Salinity Control Program. EQIP was reauthorized in the 2002 farm bill at $0.4 billion in mandatory spending in FY2002 and rising to $1.3 billion in FY2007. [2]
The Conservation Reporting and Evaluation System (CRES) is the system used by the Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) in the United States to collect and compile information about staff activities, conservation program implementation, and program accomplishments.