Best Management Practices not only provide you with ways to protect the resources on your property, they can also improve the health of your soil, livestock and increase chore efficiency.
- Rural Services Fact Sheet (PDF)
- Heavy Use Areas (aka Mud Mnagement) Fact Sheet (PDF)
- Manure Management Overview (PDF)
- Pasture Management Overview (PDF)
- Pasture Management Schedule (PDF)
- Manure Application Risk Management Fact Sheet (PDF)
- Manure Sampling Fact Sheet (PDF)
- Manure Disposal Fact Sheet (PDF)
- Lowdown on Lime Fact Sheet (PDF)
- Better Ground – Best Management Practices – Spanish (PDF)
- Better Ground – Confinement Areas – Spanish (PDF)
- Better Ground – Five Tips for Spring Pastures – Spanish (PDF)
- Better Ground – Lime for Pastures – Spanish (PDF)
Outside Publications
Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS)
Small Farm Program | Washington State Department of Agriculture
WSU Cooperative Extension
- Grazing management that achieves multiple-use goals, with Russ Stingley (Rancher-to-Rancher Case Study series (PNW724)
- Season-Long Management of Late Blight on Potato and Tomato in Western Washington (TB65E)
- Pseudomonas diseases on cucurbits in western Washington (FS335E)
- Water Quality Risk Assessment for Grazing Areas (FS332E)
- Nitrogen Inhibitors: How Do They Work to Reduce N Losses? (FS333E)
- Fresh Cheese Made Safely (PNW539)
- Elaboración Segura del Queso Fresco (Spanish version) (PNW539S)
- A Wheat Straw Pulping Co-Product Mixed with Lime May Address Soil Acidification in No-till Fields (TB63E)
- Harvest Weed Seed Control: Applications for PNW Wheat Production Systems (PNW730)