What Practices Increase Infiltration and Reduce Runoff on Slopes Greater Than 30%?
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Joe Bragger, a livestock farmer in Buffalo County, WI, implements various conservation practices to minimize losses on his farm, including maintaining waterways, installing runoff-reducing dams, adopting a no-till farming system, improving streams, and planting cover crops. His efforts have contributed significantly to reducing runoff and protecting water quality. The farm encompasses a total of 650 acres, with a combination of crop, forest, and pasture land.
What Practices Increase Infiltration and Reduce Runoff on Slopes Greater Than 30%?
- 1. Practices to Increase Infiltration and Reduce Runoff Joe Bragger Livestock Farmer Buffalo County, WI
- 2. North Basin • 416 total acres • 139 Crop acres • 234 Forest acres • 43 grass/pasture South Basin • 234 total acres • 125 forested acres • 97 grass acres • 12 crop acres
- 5. How do I minimize losses? • There are a number of conservation practices that I have incorporated into my farming system • I believe that all of these practices contributed to reducing the losses on my farm!
- 6. How do I minimize losses? 1. I maintain the waterways on our farm and install them in areas of concentrated flow.
- 10. How do I minimize losses? 1. I maintain the waterways on our farm and install them in areas of concentrated flow. 2. I have worked with my county LCD to install dams that slow runoff.
- 13. We have installed a number of dry dams at the bottom of ravines. They are not designed to hold water for long periods of time. My father started installing them.
- 14. How do I minimize losses? 1. I maintain the waterways on our farm and install them in areas of concentrated flow. 2. I have worked with my county LCD to install dams that slow runoff. 3. Implemented a no-till farming system which works well on my soils.
- 18. How do I minimize losses? 1. I maintain the waterways on our farm and install them in areas of concentrated flow. 2. I have worked with my county LCD to install dams that slow runoff. 3. Implemented a no-till farming system which works well on my soils. 4. Improved and maintained our streams.
- 23. How do I minimize losses? 1. I maintain the waterways on our farm and install them in areas of concentrated flow. 2. I have worked with my county LCD to install dams that slow runoff. 3. Implemented a no-till farming system which works well on my soils. 4. Improved and maintained our streams. 5. Plant cover crops.
- 28. Contributions from non-farmed areas
- 33. Everyone on this farm works to protect our water
Editor's Notes
- #3: 44 fields shown here, largest is 25.5 acres