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Buffer Strips
Buffer Strips: - Strips of grass or other erosion-resisting vegetation between or below cultivated strips or fields. [Environmental Protection Agency] News archive for Buffer Strips:: |
Farmers Guardian,Of the options presented to Defra, Mr Benn has given his support to the buffer strips proposal that will see arable farmers forced under cross-compliance to
Rooker backs arable farmers on buffer strips - Jul 10, 2008
Farmers Guardian,...including requirements for arable farmers, under cross-compliance, to maintain six-metre uncultivated buffer strips next to all watersides.
Youth plant a little Iowa history at fairgrounds - Jul 24, 2008
Le Mars Daily Sentinel,Pheasants Forever also wanted to give farmers a close-up look at native plants that could be used for buffer strips to control erosion and on CRP land.
National Marine Fisheries Services to review effects of pesticides ... - Jul 31, 2008
Seattle Times,Currently, a court order requires farmers — as a temporary measure — to leave buffer strips between fields sprayed with these pesticides and many salmon
USDA will not release CRP acres penalty free - Aug 1, 2008
Biodiesel Magazine,Farmers will receive payments for environmental practices such as leaving buffer strips to protect wetlands and rivers, erosion control practices and
Algae attacking Lake Okabena, area lakes - Jul 31, 2008
Worthington Daily Globe,Grass buffer strips and wetland restorations are the projects that are the easiest to see, but other efforts include rain gardens, storm water retention
Fessenden Dairy Wins Top Environmental Award in New York - Jul 22, 2008
American Agriculturist,Nearly 53 acres is dedicated to non-crop buffer strips and grass waterways to protect critical areas along Paines Creek. Bordering the village of King Ferry
Excerpts of press releases sent to the Ottawa Citizen newsroom. - Jul 22, 2008
Ottawa Citizen,The focus is on planting shoreline buffer strips with trees and shrubs, and replanting larger parcels of idle or marginal lands with hardy, native Canadian
Partnership finds use for waste products - Jul 28, 2008
Green Bay Press Gazette,Some of the more popular conservation practices installed include animal waste storage facilities, buffer strips, conservation tillage practices and
Guest column: Demand dollars for conservation - Jul 7, 2008
DesMoinesRegister.com,The money is used to rebuild and enhance large filter strips or buffer strips of native grasses along rivers, creeks and streams.
Credit where credit's due - Jul 9, 2008
Baltimore Sun,It could mean developing forested buffer strips near waterways, planting cover crops to thwart erosion or installing livestock fences to protect streams.
Jolley: Five Minutes With The Stone family, Yolo Land & Cattle ... - Jul 25, 2008
CattleNetwork.com,It talked about such extraordinary steps as wildlife friendly fencing, buffer strips to reduce pond sediment, efforts to improve grazing efficiency on the
Let's not mix oil and water - Jul 22, 2008
Glenwood Springs Post Independent,Buffer strips are not just a matter of common sense; they're required by local governments for almost all industrial and residential development.
Conservation Helps Iowa Farmers “Hold the Raindrop Where it Falls� - Jul 22, 2008
IowaPolitics.com (press release),Buffer strips, grassed waterways, no-till or minimum-till farming, and wetlands helped to keep topsoil in place, filter sediment and hold back water.
Allegan board sets hearing to discuss water runoff safeguards - Jul 22, 2008
Kalamazoo Gazette - MLive.com,The amendment would require farmers to include vegetation buffer strips to prevent runoff into rivers and lakes as a requirement to receive money under the
Volunteers clean up along park’s trails, Silver Creek - Jul 20, 2008
Evening News and Tribune,Agency’s Clean Waters Act. With the grant, they would like to add buffer strips, trees and grass along the creek to help with runoff and clean the water.
Guest column: State must overhaul how it manages water - Jul 20, 2008
DesMoinesRegister.com,Grass waterways, buffer strips and terraces prevent soil loss or sediment contamination, but if tile drainage is part of the structure, the volume and
Commission delays water saving obligations for farmers - Jul 15, 2008
EurActiv,...an obligation on farmers to leave "buffer strips" between agricultural land and watercourses and to require authorisation for using irrigation channels.
Retain the rain: It reduces erosion, pollution - Jul 14, 2008
Fremont Tribune,If you own a piece of property with a stream, plant buffer strips along its banks. This slows runoff, decreasing erosion and improving water quality.
Guest column: To cut runoff, switch from crops to grass - Jul 13, 2008
DesMoinesRegister.com,We could make many other changes to Iowa's cropping systems that would reduce flooding potential, including more stream buffer strips, restored wetlands,
Ponds benefit from TLC Sound management can aid any body of water - Jul 12, 2008
Kansas.com,Conservation grass buffer strips are good ways to filter silt before it reaches the water. A healthy crop of aquatic vegetation around the shoreline does
Best practices now mean fewer disasters - Jul 11, 2008
DesMoinesRegister.com,Buffer strips, grassed waterways, no-till or minimum-till farming and wetlands helped keep topsoil in place, filter sediment and hold back water.
Uphoffs sometimes allow nature to set their schedule - Jul 8, 2008
Agri News,Besides their involvement in the delayed haying program, the couple, whose land borders the Sauk River, have put in buffer strips to filter any field runoff
Harkin staff holds forum on farm bill - Jul 7, 2008
Marshalltown Times Republican,The bill increases funding of $4.4 billion over five years in working land conservation designed to encourage practices such as no-till or buffer strips.
Guest column: Lessons from the flood - Jul 7, 2008
DesMoinesRegister.com,Wetland preservation and restoration, cover crops, grass waterways, buffer strips and other soil-conservation practices help the land act like a sponge,
State to take stock of Lake Champlain cleanup - 02 Dec 2007
BurlingtonFreePress.com,It would divert staff time and money from the real work of changing farm practices, creating buffer strips, regulating stormwater and the like, Moore said.
Contour strips help hold soil in place - Nov 6, 2007
Agri News,Without those contour buffer strips, there'd be a gully right there, says Kerwin Siewert, pointing to a buffer strip green with alfalfa sandwiched between
Do’s and don’ts of keeping pesticides out of water - Nov 22, 2007
Farmers Guardian,...“Use Stewardship Buffer Strips to help keep spray away from ditches and watercourses.� 10. “Rinse your containers when filling the sprayer, and make sure
Political gridlock pollutes bay - Nov 25, 2007
Baltimore Sun,For example, more money to entice farmers to plant buffer strips of trees along streams, forming a natural filter to prevent fertilizer from running into
State’s water board to review Jackson County plan - Nov 28, 2007
Worthington Daily Globe,Recently, drainage management has focused more on water retention and filtration, through wetlands restoration, buffer strips, rain gardens, variable depth
Non-timber forest products can be hot commodities - Nov 28, 2007
Truro Daily News,The landscaping can take place in many forms, including: residential and commercial, schools, highways and utility corridors, riparian buffer strips,
State conservation districts honored - Nov 28, 2007
Washington Evening Journal,He said the board determines what is needed most to promote conservation - be it buffer strips, terraces or waterways - and uses those priorities to
Proposed bill would expand Clean Water Act - Nov 27, 2007
California Farm Bureau,...such as installing buffer strips or restoring wet areas that have no hydrological connection to a traditionally navigable waterway, she pointed out.
CC man continues conservation efforts after three decades - Nov 8, 2007
Charles City Press,...“He really has been a pioneer in some of those practices — Fred was using buffer strips and those kind of things before there was a title for them,� Owen
Chesapeake Bay Cleanup Funding Approved - Nov 19, 2007
Baltimore Sun,...not to use fertilizer while planting wheat and other crops in the fall, and encouring them to plant buffer strips of trees and grass along streams.
Taking from land preservation for bay program - Nov 13, 2007
Baltimore Sun,Farmers would get money to refrain from using fertilizer while planting cover crops in the fall and winter, as well as money to plant buffer strips of trees
DFG launches Agricultural Riparian Buffers Initiative to benefit ... - Nov 9, 2007
YubaNet,These buffer strips, 50 to 200 feet in width, will capture excess runoff composed of sediments, nutrients and fertilizers before they reach waterways and
Conservation plans for salmon river - Nov 20, 2007
Midloothian Today,These include setting up buffer strips - areas of land fenced back from the riverside to prevent livestock getting too close to the water.
Nine Carbon Credits Information Meetings Scheduled in Illinois - Nov 19, 2007
Prairie Farmer,There also are programs for forestry and riparian buffer strips, and agricultural methane. This meeting is open to any farm operator or landowner who is
Threatened chubsuckers get help - Nov 18, 2007
Windsor Star,Protecting them has already meant more funds for private landowners to plant more trees and add buffer strips along creeks or ditches, he said.
Owners wade in on watershed - Nov 16, 2007
Burlington Hawk Eye,In the interim, the Conservation Reserve Program, buffer strips and other land- and water-friendly practices have slowed erosion, he said.
Iowa Carbon Credit Information Meeting Nov. 20 - Nov 15, 2007
Wallace's Farmer,There also are programs for forestry and riparian buffer strips, and agricultural methane. This meeting is open to anyone who is interested in learning more
Revitalized Kennebec River winds away from polluted past - Nov 10, 2007
Central Maine Morning Sentinel,..."That was the major impact -- it forced us to land-based transportation of raw materials, and more regulations on buffer strips near streams.
Carbon Credit Information Meetings Planned - Nov 9, 2007
FarmWeek,Other programs are available for forestry and riparian buffer strips and agricultural methane. More information is available from Illinois Farm Bureau,
Understanding the soil, N usage and run-off - Nov 8, 2007
Farmers Guardian,More grass leys and buffer strips help prevent pollutants getting into streams as would more cover crops (a requirement in the current NVZ consultation
ES options not always those that benefit the environment the best - Nov 8, 2007
Farmers Guardian,...the survey revealed that the most popular ELS options relevant to arable land were crop protection management plans; four and six metre buffer strips;
Northey to investigate urban environmental problems - 23 Aug 2007
DesMoinesRegister.com,He wants to help cities install buffer strips, ponds and use other techniques to slow down water so pollutants can settle out before they reach streams.
Lake Reported Clean - 23 Aug 2007
Champlain Islander,The Canadian government is funding farmer incentives to plant wheat and other crops that do not require fertilizer to create 30 foot buffer strips along
Wildflower strips pretty, useful - Aug 7, 2007
Post-Bulletin,The contour buffer strips on Jim Wendt's farmland were yellow with black-eye susans recently. "It really amazed me," said Jim Wendt.
Candlewood Lake Authority challenges federal regulators - Jul 31, 2007
Danbury News Times,AP Video AP Podcasts By Robert Miller For years the Candlewood Lake Authority has pushed for the planting of buffer strips along the lake's shoreline.
Warning: Popular DM lake 'on last leg' - Aug 21, 2007
DesMoinesRegister.com,Possible improvement strategies include lake dredging, deepening the shoreline and installing silt traps and buffer strips. Better storm water management
Enact stricter farming laws to save rivers - Aug 18, 2007
DesMoinesRegister.com,Third, require 30- to 50-foot buffer strips on both sides of all streams and rivers. Fourth, limit farm-chemical application and fifth,
Farmers: More Corn Doesn't Mean More Pollution - Jul 25, 2007
WLWT,Much of that, though, can be negated if farmers embrace conservation management practices such as planting buffer strips and applying fertilizer more
Bill Gray focuses on family, community and farming - Aug 14, 2007
MyWebTimes.com,Buffer strips and wildlife food plots are planted. Bill has a passion for deer hunting and dresses his own deer. "We do not do without what we need,
Harkin: Soil-saving program safe - Aug 14, 2007
DesMoinesRegister.com,The program pays farmers to use conservation practices, such as installing buffer strips and practicing no-till planting, that prevent soil erosion and
Working For Clean Water - Jul 31, 2007
Up & Coming Magazine,Over 4200 miles of buffer strips along our waterways are protected from pollution because of Clean Water grants. Nearly $400 million has been invested in
Both sides speak out at confinement hearing - Aug 10, 2007
Washington Evening Journal,The manure management plan for the CAFO scored 0 points on the Matrix categories for buffer strips along the creek, avoiding manure application on highly
Commissioner Announces Agricultural Environmental Management Award - Aug 8, 2007
readMedia (press release),The Jeffres have also installed more than 30 acres of vegetative buffer strips along streams to protect water quality. The Jeffres are also part owners in a
Cobb clean-up - Aug 1, 2007
Mankato Free Press,Projects could include things such as grass buffer strips, grass waterways to cut erosion in fields, buffers around open-field tile intakes,
Campaign to stop loch going septic - Jul 27, 2007
Perthshire Advertiser,And grass buffer strips were introduced to field margins to reduce soil erosion and discharges from the local woollen mill. The Centre for Ecology and
ADAS advice on preserving archaeological features - Jul 27, 2007
FarmersWeekly,If the feature is an ‘island’ surrounded by arable, consider buffer strips (EE 1 to EE3) around them. For land already in grass, opt for ED5.
NGFA Urges Senate to Provide CRP Flexibility in Farm Bill - Jul 25, 2007
Grainnet,..."With modern farming practices (no till, minimum tillage, filter and buffer strips), more land can be farmed today in an environmentally sustainable way
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