BEST MANAGEMENT PRACTICES

What are Best Management Practices or BMPs?

These are practices or methods used to help prevent or reduce sediment and nutrients loss from agricultural operations, improve water quality, promoting biodiversity and enhance soil health. Below you will find a sampling of just a few of the BMPs suggested for use in our area.

Click on any link below to view the fact sheet outlining each Best Management Practice (BMP).

No Till‍ ‍ Reduced Till‍ ‍Cover Crops‍ ‍‍Drainage Water Management‍ ‍Denitrifying Bioreactor

Prairie Restoration‍ ‍ Saturated Buffer‍ ‍Nutrient ManagementGrassed Waterways

‍ ‍Livestock Management PracticesFilter Strip