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Kingston,Mi | The filter strip practice standard has the values in it to calculate just how much is really needed to be effective. Crop rotaions and tillage rotaions plus soil charateristics and slope finish out he information to calculate the distance. In general slopes in the o to 1 percent slope range, need only about 20 ft. Michigan's Saginaw Bay watershed has a Conservation Reserve Inhancement Program that will pay for rent up to 150 feet from the top edge. On 90% of the ground this equals about 130 feet to raise government livestock. The designer of this program has never met a farm that could not be turned into a Ducks Unlimited site. Works for FSA, thinks like the MDNRE. Shold add that our new drain commisoner who farms and is a registered engineer, is interested in getting a filter strip on every drain. Legally he can direct you not to farm the right of way, but thatis political suicide. Filter strips work very well, even in areas that still have a fair amount of tillage. Ditch cleanings intervals are extended and those who have installed filterstrips and reduced or eliminated soil running in to the ditch, think that future ditch cleaning should fall primarily on those who have seen the light yet.
Edited by BOGTROTTER 3/5/2010 19:50
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Stream Bank Buffer Zones
