Agronomy
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General Resources
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USDA Focus on Soil Health (1.94 MB)
- CORE 4 Conservation : provides common sense approaches to natural resource conservation topics.
Erosion
- Estimating Random Roughness in the Field - a collection of photographs taken from USDA Agriculture Handbook 703 "Predicting Soil Erosion by Water: A Guide to Conservation Planning with the Revised Universal Soil Loss Equation (RUSLE).
- Wind and Water Erosion Pictures, 1935-1975 - a collection of photographs taken by USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service staff across the USA between 1935 and 1975
Management Practices and Techniques
Precision Agriculture
Precision Nutrient Management Planning
(557.83 KB)
Cover Crop
Informational Site on Cover Crops - Source: Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education (SARE)
Commercial Fertilizer Application Information
Soil Testing
- FS935 (PDF; 5080 KB)
Fertilizer Recommendations Guide EC750
- EC750_2023 (PDF; 8536 KB)
- Crop Removal Numbers (PDF; 130 KB)
- ExEx8009 (PDF; 268 KB)
NRCS 590 Requirements
- Specification Guide (PDF; 112 KB)
- SD_JS_590 Ver. 2.5 (XLSM; 1,891 KB)
For more information, please contact Marcia Deneke, State Agronomist, at (605) 352-1254, email marcia.deneke@usda.gov
Cover Crops in South Dakota
Soil Health Principle #4: Keep a continual living plant/root!
