What agricultural practices can help control nutrient loading rates to the surface waters?
Environmental Protection Agency has described eight ways in its Agricultural Management Practices for Water Quality Protection, module that can help control nutrient transport to surface and ground waters. • Conservation Tillage- it involves leaving 30% crop residues on the soil surface after tillage. This practice can reduce soil-erosion, runoff, preserve soil moisture, hold nutrients on the applied area and improve soil structure, air and water quality. • Crop Nutrient Management- this practice requires accounting and inputting nutrients in quantities that may optimize crop-growth while reducing their movements off the field where they are applied to. This practice effectively controls the nutrient build-up in soils. • Pest Management- varied methods for keeping insects, weeds, disease, and other pests below economically harmful levels while protecting soil, water, and air quality.
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