Beginning July 1, 50 county conservation districts will have access to $300,000 through a new partnership between the Kansas Association of Conservation Districts, and Kansas Department of Health and Environment Watershed Management Section and Kansas Watershed Restoration and Protection Strategies.
This partnership will provide funding for the installation of best management practices within 19 high priority watersheds across Kansas. The goal is to promote a reduction of phosphorous in the identified targeted areas and assist local farmers and cattlemen in making water quality improvements to their operation.
Eligible BMPs may include relocation of feeding pens or pasture feeding sites; off-stream watering systems; implementation of rotational grazing plan; riparian area fence; terraces/waterways as part of a longterm no-till system; no-till incentives; implementing nutrient management plans; riparian buffers; and cover crops.
(Read more: The Arkansas City Traveler)