Best Management Practices

Farming is a business with many risks: the weather, finances, and market uncertainties. Today, we also realize that certain farming practices may create environmental risks that affect the water quality.

Producers experience some of the resulting problems themselves such as lower crop yields, soil losses and water pollution. But rural and urban neighbours may also be affected. Not all problems are severe and not all farms have problems. But for those producers who are affected, practical solutions exist. This web page is intended to help you explore workable solutions for soil, water and habitat problems that are covered in greater detail in the books and other products of the Best Management Practices Program.

• An Introduction to Best Management Practices
  
• A First Look
• A Phosphorus Primer
• Agroforestry Series Volume 1 - Woodlot Management
• Agroforestry Series Volume 2 - Establishing Tree Cover
• Application of Municipal Sewage Biosolids to Cropland
• Buffer Strips
• Controlling Soil Erosion on the Farm
• Cropland Drainage
• Deadstock Disposal
• Farm Forestry and Habitat Management
  
• Field Crop Production
• Fish and Wildlife Habitat Management
• Greenhouse Gas Reduction in Livestock Production Systems
  
• Horticultural Crops
• Integrated Pest Management
• Irrigation Management
• Keeping Your Well Water Safe to Drink (An Information Kit to Help You Care for Your Well) (Print only)
• Managing Crop Nutrients
• Manure Management
  
• No-till: Making It Work
• Nutrient Management Planning (Revised Edition 2006)
  
• Pesticide Storage, Handling, and Application
  
• Soil Management
• Streamside Grazing
  
• Water Management
• Water Wells