Module 13: Agricultural BMPs and Wetlands Flashcards

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what are the two major pathways for implementation of the CWA’s watershed approach to maintain water quality?

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  • stricter permits through the national pollution discharge elimination system (point)
  • incentives, training, research, and outreach for BMP (non-point)
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BMPs for non-point source pollution

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  • Adopt standards
  • Monitor and assess
  • List impaired waters
  • Implement plan
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what are the purposes of best management practices?

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  • Technically feasible
  • Economically viable
  • Socially acceptable
  • Based on sound science
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nutrient management

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reduce fertilizer use, reduce leaching losses

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water or irrigation management

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conserve water, reduce leaching losses

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Manure management

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store/utilize animal manures safely, reduce leaching losses

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integrated pest management

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reduce pesticide use

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factors related sol quality

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  • Soil texture
  • Soil organic matter
  • Soil quality impacts plant growth
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what does the USDA conservation reserve program has what?

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  • Prevented 600 million dump truck loads of soil from eroding
  • Reduced nitrogen and phosphorous runoff
  • Created 2.7 million acres of restored wetlands
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nutrient management plan purpose

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  • reduce fertilizer use
  • reduce leaching losses
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nutrient management plan principles and practices

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  • right source, right rate, right place, right time
  • use soil data to inform nutrient additions
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water/irrigation management plan purpose

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  • conserve water
  • reduce leaching losses
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water/irrigation management plan principles and practices

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  • manage fertilizer and irrigation together
  • use soil data to inform water additions
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manure management plan purpose

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  • store/utilize animal manures safely
  • reduce leaching losses
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manure management plan principles and practices

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utilize the six basic waste management function

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IPM plan purpose

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  • reduce pesticide use
  • improve soil quality
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IPM plan principles and practices

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  • pest monitoring
  • economic injury level
  • cultural, biological, mechanical, and chemical controls
  • make soil habitat unfavorable to pest
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high soil quality

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  • Higher organic matter = stable soil structure
  • Water infiltration
  • Soil surface protected with decomposing plant debris
  • Little to no erosion
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degraded soil

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  • Low organic matter = weak soil structure
  • Low water infiltration into soil pores
  • Soil surface: a crust created from splash erosion
  • Splash erosion: leads to rill erosion
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what are soil conservation strategies?

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  • Right plant, right place
  • Enrich soil with organic matter
  • Adopt rotational grazing
  • Control tile drainage
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how do you enrich the soil with organic matter?

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  • Compost
  • Fresh manure
  • Composted manure
  • Green manure
  • Direct incorporation of organic amendments
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Conservation tillage

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residues left on surface, minimal to no soil tillage

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Conventional tillage

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mixes soil to bury residues or prepare soil for planting

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Advantages of conventional tillage

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  • This process buries weeds so seeds cannot germinate
  • Mixing of soil also buries and physically destroys disease organisms and insects
  • In some regions with wet springs tillage speeds up the drying of the soil
  • It may be required for certain crips, like potatoes and peanuts
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Disadvantages of conventional tillage
- Soil is prone to erosion if left bare - Soil organic matter decreases and so does soil quality (requiring increased inputs of nutrients, water) - It can lead to a loss of beneficial insects
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control drainage
Maintaining carbon content in organic soils with BMPs in water table management
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what does soil texture and soil qualities?
determine the porosity, water holding capacity, and nutrient holding capacity
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how can erosion losses occur?
wind and water action
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offsite erosion
- erosion is a source of sediment pollution to downstream water bodies - Phosphorous readily absorbs onto soil particles, erosion is likely a source of phosphorous nutrient pollution to surface water bodies
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onsite erosion
- erosion decreases soil quality by removing the most valuable layer of soil, the surface later or A horizon - Has highest organic matter content and where most crop roots are
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riparian buffers
- Planting crops right up to a water body offers no protection from agricultural runoff and stream and bank erosion - Permanent buffers stabilize stream banks and filter runoff water - Sediment and nutrients entering the water are reduced significantly