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Conservation Practices

Implementing conservation practices on your farm increases your economic flexibility and long term profitability while strengthening your stewardship of natural resources and the environment. The conservation practices presented below represent some of the more common approaches to ensure sustainability and eliminate, if not reduce, environmental degradation. The soil, water, and related natural resources will benefit by these and other conservation practices.

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Additional information is available on the New York NRCS Field Office Technical Guide (FOTG).
 

 

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Conservation Practice Web Pages
Practice
Code

Conservation Practice
472 Access Control
560 Access Road
309 Agrichemical Handling Facility
710 Agricultural Secondary Containment Facility
371 Air Filtration and Scrubbing
591 Amendments for Treatment of Agricultural Waste
366 Anaerobic Digester, Controlled Temperature
316 Animal Mortality Facility
575 Animal Trails and Walkways
370 Atmospheric Resources Quality Management
310 Bedding
314 Brush Management
322 Channel Bank Vegetation
360 Closure of Waste Impoundments
372 Combustion System Improvement
317 Composting Facility
327 Conservation Cover
328 Conservation Crop Rotation
656 Constructed Wetland
332 Contour Buffer Strips
330 Contour Farming
331 Contour Orchard and Other Perennial Crops
340 Cover Crop
342 Critical Area Planting
588 Cross Wind Ridges
589c Cross Wind Trap Strips
324 Deep Tillage
362 Diversion
554 Drainage Water Management New!
373 Dust Control on Unpaved Roads and Surfaces
647 Early Successional Habitat Development/Management
592 Feed Management
382 Fence
386 Field Border
393 Filter Strip
394 Firebreak
399 Fishpond Management
512 Forage and Biomass Planting (formerly named Pasture and Hay Planting)
511 Forage Harvest Management
666 Forest Stand Improvement
655 Forest Trails and Landings
383 Fuel Break
412 Grassed Waterway
548 Grazing Land Mechanical Treatment
561 Heavy Use Area Protection
315 Herbaceous Weed Control
603 Herbaceous Wind Barriers
595 Integrated Pest Management (IPM) (formerly named Pest Management)
430 Irrigation Pipeline
*** Irrigation Practices - links to a variety of irrigation related conservation practices
441 Irrigation System, Microirrigation
449 Irrigation Water Management
460 Land Clearing
468 Lined Waterway or Outlet
484 Mulching (with organic materials)
484 Mulching (with plastic)
590 Nutrient Management
500 Obstruction Removal
150 Oil Spill Prevention, Control, and Countermeasure (SPCC) Conservation Activity Plan (CAP)
783 Pathogen Management
516 Pipeline
378 Pond, Embankment or Excavated
338 Prescribed Burning
409 Prescribed Forestry
528 Prescribed Grazing
568 Recreation Trail and Walkway
345 Residue and Tillage Management, Mulch Till
329 Residue and Tillage Management, No Till/Strip Till/Direct Seed
346 Residue and Tillage Management, Ridge Till
344 Residue Management, Seasonal
643 Restoration and Management of Rare and Declining Habitats
391 Riparian Forest Buffer
390 Riparian Herbaceous Cover
367 Roofs and Covers
558 Roof Runoff Structure
570 Stormwater Runoff Control
350 Sediment Basin
798 Seasonal High Tunnel System for Crops
646 Shallow Water Development and Management
632 Solid/Liquid Waste Separation Facility
574 Spring Development
578 Stream Crossing
395 Stream Habitat Improvement and Management
585 Stripcropping
570 Stormwater Runoff Control
587 Structure for Water Control
606 Subsurface Drain
607 Surface Drain, Field Ditch
600 Terrace
612 Tree/Shrub Establishment
660 Tree/Shrub Pruning
490 Tree/Shrub Site Preparation
620 Underground Outlet
645 Upland Wildlife Habitat Management
635 Vegetated Treatment Area
601 Vegetative Barrier
633 Waste Recycling (formerly Waste Utilization)
313 Waste Storage Facility
634 Waste Transfer
629 Waste Treatment
359 Waste Treatment Lagoon
633 Waste Recycling (formerly Waste Utilization)
638 Water and Sediment Control Basin
614 Watering Facility
642 Water Well (irrigation, animal, wildlife, human use)
355 Water Well Testing
658 Wetland Creation
659 Wetland Enhancement
657 Wetland Restoration
644 Wetland Wildlife Habitat Management
380 Windbreak/Shelterbelt Establishment
650 Windbreak/Shelterbelt Renovation

For additional technical information related to this page, please contact:

Edward Henry, State Resource Conservationist
Syracuse, New York
Telephone: 315-477-6529
E-mail: Edward Henry

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