Nutrient & Pest Management

Nutrient Management

• Nutrient Management Page

• Animal Waste Management (AWM)
  A planning tool used to estimate the production of waste materials within an animal feeding operation and determine the size of storage / treatment facilities (process and calculations used in AWM based on the USDA-NRCS Agricultural Waste Management Field Handbook).

• Manure Management Planner (MMP)
  Being developed at Purdue University; A manure utilization planning tool to help develop nutrient management plans. (NRCS is cooperating with the development of this tool and plans to incorporate it into the toolkit used by NRCS staffs.)

• Phosphorus Index
  A site vulnerability assessment tool, helps determine the relative risk for off-site transport of phosphorus and for manure. The Phosphorus Index is one of the best techniques for making manure management decisions. The PI is a useful tool for prioritizing fields for the application of animal manure or other organic by-products that contains phosphorus. It may also be used to identify fields on which more careful management of phosphorus may be necessary.

• Animal Feeding Operations (AFOs)
  Includes information on Comprehensive Nutrient Management Plans (CNMPs).

• Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations (CAFO) - Final Rule

• Agricultural Waste Management Field Handbook (AWMFH)
  National Engineering Handbook Part 651

• Soil Testing for Phosphorus: Environmental Uses and Implications

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Wyoming Comprehensive Nutrient Management Statement of Work (PDF, 142 KB)

Pest Management

• Pest Management Page

• NRCS Pest Management Policy
  The new pest management policy emphasizes the importance of reducing pest management environmental risk through the development of a pest management component of a Resource Management System plan.  The policy also emphasizes integrating pest management with other plan components.  Erosion reduction, water management, nutrient management and other conservation objectives and program goals can all be compatible with pest management environmental risk reduction.

• Windows Pesticide Screening Tool (WIN-PST)
  A simple pesticide screening tool that NRCS field office staff, extension agents, crop consultants, pesticide dealers and producers can use to evaluate the potential environmental risk for pesticides to move with water and eroded soil/organic matter and affect nontargeted organisms.

• National Agricultural Pesticide Risk Analysis (NAPRA)
  A complex modeling system that utilizes GLEAMS to predict the probability of toxic pesticide movement associated with specific crop management techniques under specific weather and soil conditions. NAPRA can be used in high-risk areas to determine what kinds of alternative management strategies would be required to meet water quality goals.

• Pest Management - Core 4 Pest Management
  Technical References and Training Materials

• Western Integrated Pest Management Center
  The Western Integrated Pest Management Center is one of four centers in a national network established to strengthen USDA's connection with production agriculture, research and extension programs, and agricultural stakeholders throughout the United States.

• High Plains Integrated Pest Management
  This guide is intended to provide current effective management options for insect and other arthropod pests, and for plant pathogens affecting all major field crops grown in Colorado, Montana, Wyoming, and Western Nebraska. Chemical and non-chemical control practices, when available, are described in detail for individual pests and pathogens. These practices include cultural and biological control options, and host plant resistance. By including alternatives to pesticides, we hope to create a ready reference of management strategies growers will consider when faced with a pest problem.

• Pest Management - Links