Conservation Choices

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About This Guide

This guide features 32 conservation and environmental farming practices. The guide:

• shows how each practice works and how it helps improve a farm.
• lists items to think about when considering each practice.
• gives information about NRCS technical standards.
• talks about maintenance needs.

Information about each of the 32 practices:

Illustration with all 32 conservation practices

1. Brush Management
2. Conservation Cover
3. Contour Buffer Strip
4. Contour Farming
5. Cover Crop
6. Crop Rotation
7. Denitrifying Bioreactor
8. Farmstead Energy
9. Fence
10. Field Border
11. Filter Strip
12. Forage and Biomass Planting
13. Grade Stabilization Structure
14. Grassed Waterway
15. High Tunnel System
16. Manure Storage (Waste Storage Facility)
17. No-Till/Strip-Till
18. Nutrient Management
19. Pest Management
20. Pond
21. Prescribed Burning
22. Prescribed Grazing
23. Riparian Forest Buffer
24. Stream Crossing
25. Stream Bank Protection
26. Terrace
27. Tree/Shrub Establishment
28. Upland Wildlife Habitat Management
29. Water and Sediment Control Basin
30. Watering Facility
31. Wetland
32. Windbreak/Shelterbelt