Agricultural Best Management Practices (General)

 

University of Arkansas, Cooperative Extension Service-

Soil and Water Management Handbook

Assessing Your Cropland

Nutrient Management Practices

Soybean Handbook

Soil Phosphorus Levels: Concerns and Recommendations (pdf, 0.1 mb)

Soil Erosion and Clear Streamwater

Soil Test Data Online- Access Your Soil Test Reports

 

National Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) -

Best Management Practices Technical Manual (Browse Technical Guides by State and County)

Buffer Strips: Common Sense Conservation

County Soils Survey

National Handbook for Water Quality Monitoring (pdf, 1.2 mb, written in 1997)

Performance and Results System - Conservation Practices and Implementation (requires user to obtain a level 1 user ID and password)

Water Quality Publications

 

NRCS/Cooperative Extension Service -

Farm*A*Syst For Arkansas

 

ANRC -

Arkansas NPS Management Program Agriculture BMPs (pdf; 1.0 mb; scroll to the end of the document)

 

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) -

Agricultural Best Management Practices For Water Quality     

National Managment Measures to Control Non-Point Source Pollution from Agriculture - Discusses Nutrient, Pesticide, Erosion, Animal Feeding, Grazing, and Irrigation Management.  (pdf, multiple files, last updated July 2003)

Protecting Water from Agricultural Runoff Fact Sheet (pdf, 0.1 mb)

 

SERA-17-

Series of 32 BMP Factsheets (pdf, multiple files, scroll to bottom of page)                    

 

Announcements

  • Clean Water Act Section 303(d) Impaired Waters Data Update here
  • Arkansas’s Final/ Draft Impaired Waterbodies – 303(d) List by Year here
  • AR Water Newsletter, Summer, 2015 here
  • NPS Management Plan (PDF) here
  • The projects presented at the 2015 annual NPS conference are located here

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