Whole Farm Conservation Best Practices Manual
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Iowa State University | USDA-Natural Resources Conservation Service
The manual was named as the first-place recipient of a Certificate of Excellence for long publications by the American Society of Agronomy and received an Educational Aids Blue Ribbon by the American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers.
The Whole Farm Conservation Best Practices Manual is designed to facilitate conservation practice decision-making by landowners and farmers through step-by-step guides relevant to many different topographies, soils, cropping systems and goals. During the first 18 months, more than 1,950 copies were distributed through the ISU Extension Store and an additional 10,000 copies were distributed to NRCS district offices throughout Iowa.
