BMP CHALLENGE Experience: Cannon River Watershed Partnership

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BMP CHALLENGE ExperienceCannon River Watershed
Partnership
Information provided by Dave Legvold Executive
Director Cannon River Watershed Partnership
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Experiences
Partnership Mission

• To protect and improve the surface and ground
  water resources as well as natural systems of
• the watershed through
• Education
• Advocacy
• Monitoring and scientific analysis
• Conservation

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Experiences
Agriculture Management
Current Three-legged Stool of Management Incent
ives Farm program counter-incentives Educatio
n Private-public mix of messages Regulation
Almost absent (exception feedlots)
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Experiences
Agriculture Management
Total Resource Management
Connects producers with specific operations in
their local area as experts. Centered on farm
management systems Linked to federal, state and
local funding and resources Focused on
achieving non-point source load reduction through
increased adoption of agriculture BMPs
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Experiences
Agriculture Management
Crop Nutrient Management Manure Application

• U of MN recommendations for N and P
• Regular soil testing
• Manure testing
• Manure injection incorporation
• Adjust manure rates to P uptake rather than N
• need and apply additional N as needed

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Experiences
Agriculture Management
Erosion Control

• Rotational average 30 surface crop residue
• Studies show that targeted conservation
  practices on 7 to 10 of land in a watershed can
  reduce sediment delivery by up to 70
• - Tom Vilsack
• Use innovation to reduce tillage and retain
  residue

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Experiences
Agriculture Management
Re-balancing the Three-legged Stool of
Management Incentives Connecting to farmers
by starting with their farming
system(s) Education Prime, package and
publicize Regulation to Recognition Successful
voluntary adoption is the better way
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Experiences
2006 Experiences
Education
Brian Brandt Nutrient and Tillage Workshop July
12, 2006
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Experiences
2006 Experiences
Innovation
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2006 Experiences
Adoption
Row-incorporated low rate manure application at
1500 gallons/acre.
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Experiences
2006 Experiences
Results
Tillage Cost Savings Calculation Tillage Cost Savings Calculation
1. Tillage cost per acre, Check Strip 13.23 per acre
2. Tillage cost per acre, Reduced Tillage acres 5.00 per acre
3. Net tillage cost savings (item 1 minus item 2) 8.23 per acre
Net Economic Return Calculation Net Economic Return Calculation
4. Reduced Tillage BMP Strip yield per acre 83.2 bu/acre
5. Check Strip yield per acre 158.2 bu/acre
6. Value of BMP Strip yield (Line 3 times 2.20) 183.04 per acre
7. Value of Check Strip yield (Line 4 times 2.20) 348.04 per acre
8. Value differential (Line 6 minus item 7) -165.00 per acre
9. Net economic return (Line 3 plus item 8) -156.77 per acre
If Line 9 is greater than zero, no performance guarantee payment is needed. Go to farmer contribution, Line 11. 5.3 acres at 156.77/acre 830.88 If Line 9 is greater than zero, no performance guarantee payment is needed. Go to farmer contribution, Line 11. 5.3 acres at 156.77/acre 830.88
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Experiences
2006 Experiences
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