NRCS provides leadership and technical assistance for the conservation of our natural resources to ensure the continued production of food and fiber.
Cultivated cropland comprises land in row crops or close-grown crops and also other cultivated cropland, for example, hay land or pastureland that is in a rotation with row or close-grown crops. Non-cultivated cropland includes permanent hay land and horticultural cropland.
There is approximately 750,000 acres of cropland in production in the state and New Jersey farmers produce over 100 different types of crops.
NRCS to provide national leadership and technical assistance for the conservation of our natural resources to ensure the continued production of food and fiber.
Major natural resource concerns facing cropland include:
- Erosion by wind and water
- Maintaining and enhancing soil quality
- Water quality from nutrient and pesticides runoff and leaching
- Managing the quantity of water available for irrigation