Guides and Instructions
Crop Bundle 25 - Climate Smart Advanced Soil Health (B000CPL25)
Improve crop land soil health by increasing plant diversity and minimizing soil disturbance.
Resources
Tech Tools
CropFlex - Version 1
CropFlex is a management system for irrigated crops. The goal of CropFlex is to provide irrigation and fertility management advice to assist farmers in maintaining or increasing yields while minimizing the potential of leaching nitrates.
Data and Reports
Cropland Resources & Publications
NRCS utilizes has several technical resources and publications to assist growers plan and apply conservation on their land to address their unique natural resources concerns.
Data and Reports
Cropland Soil Erosion
Estimated wind and sheet and rill erosion on cropland for 1982-2017, at 5-year intervals, for highly erodible and non-highly erodible land, by state based on the National Resources Inventory (NRI).
Guides and Instructions
Cross Wind Ridges (Ac.) (588) Conservation Practice Standard
Download the national conservation practice standard document and supporting documents for Cross Wind Ridges (Ac.) (588).
Guides and Instructions
Cross Wind Trap Strips (Ac.) (589c) Conservation Practice Standard
Download the national conservation practice standard document and supporting documents for Cross Wind Trap Strips (Ac.) (589c).
Guides and Instructions
CSP enhancement guides - Indiana
Whether your farm thousands of acres or just a few, raise livestock or own private forestland, CSP has enhancements that can help you take your conservation practices to the next level. The documents below can help you identify possible conservation enhancement activities for your operation.
Guides and Instructions
Cultural Resources
NRCS cultural resources policy involves protection and enhancement of cultural resources and historic properties in their original location to the fullest practical extent.
Guides and Instructions
Dam (No.) (402) Conservation Practice Standard
Download the national conservation practice standard document and supporting documents for Dam (No.) (402).
Guides and Instructions
Dam, Diversion (No.) (348) Conservation Practice Standard
Download the national conservation practice standard document and supporting documents for Dam, Diversion (No.) (348).
Guides and Instructions
Deep Tillage (Ac.) (324) Conservation Standard
Download the national conservation practice standard document and supporting documents for Deep Tillage (Ac.) (324).
Education and Teaching Materials
Defining LRR, MLRA, and LRU
Definitions for Land Resource Region (LRR), Major Land Resource Area (MLRA), and Land Resource Unit (LRU).
Education and Teaching Materials
Delaware NRCS Conservation Newsletters
View the latest conservation news and updates from Delaware NRCS.
Education and Teaching Materials
Delaware NRCS Publications & Fact Sheets
Read the latest Delaware NRCS publications and fact sheets to learn how NRCS and farmers and landowners can work together to improve agricultural operations while helping the environment. (Note: All publications can be viewed using Adobe PDF unless otherwise stated.)
Guides and Instructions
Denitrifying Bioreactor (No.) (605) Conservation Practice Standard
Download the national conservation practice standard document and supporting documents for Denitrifying Bioreactor (No.) (605).
Data and Reports
Description of STATSGO2 Database
The Digital General Soil Map of the United States or STATSGO2 is a broad-based inventory of soils and non-soil areas that occur in a repeatable pattern on the landscape and that can be cartographically shown at the scale mapped of 1:250,000 for most of U.S and territories and 1:1M for Alaska.
Guides and Instructions
Dike and Levee (Ft.) (356) Conservation Standard
Download the national conservation practice standard document and supporting documents for Dike and Levee (Ft.) (356).
Guides and Instructions
Diversion (Ft.) (362) Conservation Practice Standard
Download the national conservation practice standard document and supporting documents for Diversion (Ft.) (362).
Guides and Instructions
Drainage Water Management (Ac.) (554) Conservation Practice Standard
Download the national conservation practice standard document and supporting documents for Drainage Water Management (Ac.) (554).
Guides and Instructions
Drainage Water Management (DWM) Factsheet
USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) offers technical and financial assistance for Drainage Water Management (DWM). Installation and implementation of DWM begins with a DWM Conservation Plan.