Code # |
Enhancement Name |
E314A |
Brush management to improve wildlife habitat |
E315A |
Herbaceous weed treatment to create desired plant communities consistent with the ecological site |
E327A |
Conservation cover for pollinators and beneficial insects |
E327B |
Establish Monarch butterfly habitat |
E328A |
Resource conserving crop rotation |
E328B |
Improved resource conserving crop rotation |
E328C |
Conservation crop rotation on recently converted CRP grass/legume cover |
E328D |
Leave standing grain crops unharvested to benefit wildlife |
E328E |
Soil health crop rotation |
E328F |
Modifications to improve soil health and increase soil organic matter |
E328G |
Conservation crop rotation on recently converted CRP grass/legume cover for soil organic matter improvement |
E328H |
Conservation crop rotation to reduce the concentration of salts |
E328I |
Conservation crop rotation to reduce water quality degradation by utilization and removal of excess soil nutrients with forage harvest |
E328J |
Improved crop rotation to provide benefits to pollinators |
E328K |
Multiple crop types to benefit wildlife |
E328L |
Leaving tall crop residue for wildlife |
E328M |
Diversified crop rotation to benefit pollinators and beneficial insects |
E328N |
Intercropping to improve soil health |
E328O |
Perennial grain crop conservation rotation |
E329A |
No till to reduce soil erosion |
E329B |
No till to reduce tillage induced particulate matter |
E329C |
No till to increase plant-available moisture |
E329D |
No till system to increase soil health and soil organic matter conten |
E329E |
No till to reduce energy |
E334A |
Controlled traffic farming to reduce compaction |
E340A |
Cover crop to reduce soil erosion |
E340B |
Intensive cover cropping to increase soil health and soil organic matter content |
E340C |
Use of multi-species cover crops to improve soil health and increase soil organic matter |
E340D |
Intensive cover cropping (orchard/vineyard floor) to increase soil health and soil organic matter content |
E340E |
Use of soil health assessment to assist with development of cover crop mix to improve soil health and increase soil organic matter |
E340F |
Cover crop to minimize soil compaction |
E340G |
Cover crop to reduce water quality degradation by utilizing excess soil nutrients |
E340H |
Cover crop to suppress excessive weed pressures and break pest cycles |
E340I |
Using cover crops for biological strip till |
E345A |
Reduced tillage to reduce soil erosion |
E345B |
Reduced tillage to reduce tillage induced particulate matter |
E345C |
Reduced tillage to increase plant-available moisture |
E345D |
Reduced tillage to increase soil health and soil organic matter content |
E345E |
Reduced tillage to reduce energy use |
E373A |
Dust suppressant re-application for stabilization |
E374A |
Install variable frequency drive(s) on pump(s) |
E374B |
Switch fuel source for pump motor(s) |
E376A |
Modify field operations to reduce particulate matter |
E381A |
Silvopasture for wildlife habitat |
E382A |
Incorporating "wildlife friendly" fencing for connectivity of wildlife food resources |
E382B |
Installing electrical fence offsets and wire to facilitate cross-fencing for improved grazing management |
E383A |
Grazing-maintained fuel break to reduce the risk of fire |
E384A |
Biochar production from woody residue |
E386A |
Enhanced field borders to reduce soil erosion along the edge(s) of a field |
E386B |
Enhanced field borders to increase carbon storage along the edge(s) of the field |
E386C |
Enhanced field borders to decrease particulate emissions along the edge(s) of the field |
E386D |
Enhanced field borders to increase food for pollinators along the edge(s) of a field |
E386E |
Enhanced field borders to increase wildlife food and habitat along the edge(s) of a field |
E390A |
Increase riparian herbaceous cover width for sediment and nutrient reduction |
E390B |
Increase riparian herbaceous cover width to enhance wildlife habitat |
E391A |
Increase riparian forest buffer width for sediment and nutrient reduction |
E391B |
Increase stream shading for stream temperature reduction |
E391C |
Increase riparian forest buffer width to enhance wildlife habitat |
E393A |
Extend existing filter strip to reduce water quality impacts |
E399A |
Fishpond management for native aquatic and terrestrial species |
E412A |
Enhance a grassed waterway |
E420A |
Establish pollinator habitat |
E420B |
Establish monarch butterfly habitat |
E447A |
Advanced Tailwater Recovery |
E449A |
Complete pumping plant evaluation for water savings |
E449B |
Alternated Wetting and Drying (AWD) of rice fields |
E449C |
Advanced Automated IWM – Year 2-5, soil moisture monitoring |
E449D |
Advanced Automated IWM - Year 1. Equipment and soil moisture or water level monitoring |
E449E |
Convert from Cascade to Furrow Irrigated Rice Production – reduce irrigation water consumption |
E449F |
Intermediate IWM— Year 1, Equipment with Soil or Water Level monitoring |
E449G |
Intermediate IWM— Years 2-5, Soil or Water Level monitoring |
E449H |
Intermediate IWM— Years 2 -5, Soil moisture or water level monitoring |
E449I |
IWM - Year 1, Retrofit Equipment with Speed Control on Sprinkler Irrigation System |
E449J |
Intermediate IWM – 20% Reduced Water usage |
E472A |
Manage livestock access to streams, ditches, and other waterbodies to reduce nutrients or pathogens to surface water. |
E484A |
Mulching to improve soil health |
E484B |
Reduce particulate matter emissions by using woody material mulch |
E484C |
Mulching with natural materials in specialty crops for weed control |
E511A |
Harvest of crops (hay or small grains) using conservation measures that allow desired species to flush or escape |
E511B |
Forage harvest management that helps maintain wildlife habitat cover, shelter or continuity |
E511D |
Forage harvest management to improve terrestrial habitat for wildlife and invertebrates during critical over-winter periods |
E512A |
Cropland conversion to grass-based agriculture to reduce soil erosion |
E512B |
Forage and biomass planting to reduce soil erosion or increase organic matter to build soil health |
E512C |
Cropland conversion to grass-based agriculture for soil organic matter improvement |
E512D |
Forage plantings that help increase organic matter in depleted soils |
E512E |
Forage and biomass planting that produces feedstock for biofuels or energy production |
E512K |
Establishing native species into forage base to improve diversity for both livestock and wildlife |
E512I |
Establish pollinator and/or beneficial insect and/or monarch habitat |
E512J |
Establish wildlife corridors to provide habitat continuity or access to water |
E512L |
Diversifying forage base with interseeding forbs and legumes to increase pasture quality |
E528A |
Maintaining quantity and quality of forage for animal health and productivity |
E528B |
Grazing management that improves monarch butterfly habitat |
E528C |
Incorporating wildlife refuge areas in contingency plans for wildlife |
E528D |
Grazing management for improving quantity and quality of food for wildlife |
E528E |
Grazing management for improving quantity and quality of plant structure and composition for wildlife |
E528F |
Stockpiling cool season forage to improve structure and composition or plant productivity and health |
E528G |
Improved grazing management on pasture for plant productivity and health with monitoring activities |
E528H |
Prescribed grazing that improves or maintains riparian and watershed function-elevated water temperature |
E528I |
Grazing management that protects sensitive areas -surface or ground water from nutrients |
E528J |
Prescribed grazing on pastureland that improves riparian and watershed function impairment from nutrients or pathogens and chemicals or mininizes sediment |
E528L |
Prescribed grazing that improves or maintains riparian and watershed function-erosion |
E528M |
Grazing management that protects sensitive areas from gully erosion |
E528N |
Improved grazing management through monitoring activities |
E528O |
Clipping mature forages to set back vegetative growth for improved forage quality |
E528P |
Implementing Bale or Swath Grazing to increase organic matter and reduce nutrients in surface water |
E528Q |
Use of body condition scoring for livestock on a monthly basis to keep track of herd health |
E528R |
Management Intensive Rotational Grazing |
E528S |
Soil Health Improvements on Pasture |
E528T |
Grazing to Reduce Wildfire Risks on Forests |
E533A |
Advanced Pumping Plant Automation |
E533B |
Complete pumping plant evaluation for energy savings |
E550A |
Range planting for increasing/maintaining organic matter |
E550B |
Range planting for improving forage, browse, or cover for wildlife |
E570A |
Enhanced rain garden for wildlife |
E578A |
Stream crossing elimination |
E580A |
Stream corridor bank stability improvement |
E580B |
Stream corridor bank vegetation improvement |
E590A |
Improving nutrient uptake efficiency and reducing risk of nutrient losses |
E590B |
Reduce risks of nutrient losses to surface water by utilizing precision agriculture technologies to plan and apply nutrients |
E590C |
Improving nutrient uptake efficiency and reducing risk of nutrient losses on pasture |
E590D |
Reduce risks of nutrient losses to surface and groundwater by increasing setback awareness via precision technology |
E595A |
Reduce risk of pesticides in surface water by utilizing precision pesticide application techniques |
E595B |
Reduce risk of pesticides in water and air by utilizing IPM PAMS techniques |
E595D |
Increase the size requirement of refuges planted to slow pest resistance to Bt crops |
E595E |
Eliminate use of chemical treatments to control pests and to increase the presence of dung beetles |
E595F |
Improving soil organism habitat on agricultural land |
E612A |
Cropland conversion to trees or shrubs |
E612B |
Planting for high carbon sequestration rate |
E612C |
Establishing tree/shrub species to restore native plant communities |
E612D |
Adding food-producing trees and shrubs to existing plantings |
E612E |
Cultural plantings |
E612F |
Sugarbush management |
E612G |
Tree/shrub planting for wildlife food |
E643A |
Restoration of sensitive coastal vegetative communities |
E645A |
Reduction of attractants to human-subsidized predators in sensitive wildlife species habitat |
E645B |
Manage existing shrub thickets to provide adequate shelter for wildlife |
E645C |
Edge feathering for wildlife cover |
E646A |
Close structures to capture and retain rainfall to provide winter habitat for waterfowl and other wading birds |
E646B |
Extend retention of captured winter rainfall to provide late winter habitat for migratory waterfowl and wading birds |
E646C |
Manipulate vegetation and maintain closed structures to retain rainfall to provide mid summer habitat for shorebirds |
E646D |
Manipulate vegetation and maintain closed structures to retain rainfall to provide late summer habitat for shorebirds |
E647C |
Establish and maintain most soil vegetation on cropland edges to enhance waterfowl and shorebird habitat |
E647D |
Establish and maintain wildlife habitat by providing early successional, naturally occurring vegetation in ditches and ditch bank borders |
E666A |
Maintaining and improving forest soil quality |
E666D |
Forest management to enhance understory vegetation |
E666E |
Reduce height of the forest understory to limit wildfire risk |
E666F |
Reduce forest stand density to improve a degraded plant community |
E666G |
Reduce forest density and manage understory along roads to limit wildfire risk |
E666H |
Increase on-site carbon storage |
E666I |
Crop tree management for mast production |
E666J |
Facilitating oak forest regeneration |
E666K |
Creating structural diversity with patch openings |
E666L |
Forest Stand Improvement to rehabilitate degraded hardwood stands |
E666L |
Forest Stand Improvement to rehabilitate degraded hardwood stands |
E666M |
Maintaining structural diversity in dry Western forests |
E666N |
Creating structural diversity in dry Western forests |
E666O |
Snags, den trees, and coarse woody debris for wildlife habitat |
E666P |
Summer roosting habitat for native forest-dwelling bat species |
E666Q |
Increase diversity in pine plantation monocultures |
E666R |
Forest songbird habitat maintenance |