Progress 06/28/05 to 06/27/06
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Progress Report 4d Progress report. This report serves to document research conducted under an outgoing grant from ARS to the University of Missouri. Additional details can be found in the report for the parent research project 3622-12130-003-00D, entitled Development of alternative practices for improved watershed management. The Stewardship Implementation Program (SIP) was implemented during FY05. The Stewardship Implementation Program (SIP) uses on-farm demonstrations, side-by-side comparisons, and individual assistance to help producers implement BMP's for reduction of herbicide losses into surface water bodies. Water quality sampling occurred throughout the spring and summer of 2006, continuing into the Specific Cooperative Agreement 3622-12130-003-03S Evaluating effects of best management practices for crop production in Mark Twain Lake basin. Seven automatic sampling devices were deployed and maintained to support SIP. Efforts included sampling within
structural BMPs, study reservoirs, and stream reaches within the study watersheds. Samples were collected during both base and storm flow conditions within the various stream monitoring locations. These samples were analyzed for total nitrogen, nitrate+nitrite, total phosphorus, total suspended solids, various herbicides, and chlorophyll (reservoir samples only).
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Progress 10/01/04 to 09/30/05
Outputs
4d Progress report. This report serves to document research conducted under an outgoing grant from ARS to the Missouri Agricultural Experiment Station. Additional details can be found in the report for the parent research project 3622- 12130-003-00D, entitled Development of Alternative Practices for Iimproved Watershed Management. During FY05, the Stewardship Implementation Program (SIP) was implemented successfully. The Stewardship Implementation Program (SIP), in which on-farm demonstrations, side-by-side comparisons, and individual assistance to help producers implement BMP's for reduction of herbicide losses into surface water bodies. Water quality sampling occurred throughout the spring and summer of 2005. Seven automatic sampling devices were deployed and maintained to support SIP. Efforts included sampling at structural BMPs, study reservoirs, and stream reaches within the study watersheds. Samples were collected during both base and storm flow conditions
within the various stream monitoring locations. These samples were analyzed for total nitrogen, nitrate+nitrite, total phosphorus, total suspended solids, various herbicides, and chlorophyll (reservoir samples only). WRASP and SIP study data were validated and collected within the project database. Project investigators made significant progress in preparing interpretative data depictions and summarizing WRASP data results. 6. What science and/or technologies have been transferred and to whom? When is the science and/or technology likely to become available to the end- user (industry, farmer, other scientists)? What are the constraints, if known, to the adoption and durability of the technology products? Over the winter several one-on-one meetings with project participants were held to talk about the 2005 growing season. Field staff contacted farmers in the Smithville and Mark Twain watersheds and found volunteer farmers for the expansion of the project for the 2005 growing
season. Staff members attended the Show Me Ag Classic in February to inform farmers, dealers, and other agriculture supporters about these projects. Due to the great success of WRASP, staff were able to hold 12 grower appreciation meetings. Supporters and local farmers were thanked for their efforts and encouraged to continue improving water quality and the environment. Over 7,000 farmers in north Missouri received information about the successful WRASP project (brochures and videos) in May 2005. This mass mailing included information about ERC and other supporters projects and future endeavors. Field staff made applications of herbicide to approximately 500 acres of demonstration sites in the spring of 2005. Staff worked with farmers to choose appropriate herbicide management programs. Recently, farmers in the Smithville, Mark Twain, and Monroe City Route J watersheds attended an array of field events. Project staff were on hand at eight field events to inform farmers of new
regulations, atrazine updates, and weed management strategies. These field events were very well attended, and staff are currently in the process of planning additional technology transfer opportunities. As a result of the WRASP concept, which was to work on farms and directly with producers through an organization well-known to the producers (Missouri Corn Growers Association), the results were readily available to end users, with few constraints against adoption. 7. List your most important publications in the popular press and presentations to organizations and articles written about your work. (NOTE: List your peer reviewed publications below). Brochures and a CD-based video describing the WRASP project and related projects were developed and distributed. WRASP Wraps Up: EPA and Senator Kit Bond Recognize WRASP. Todays Farmer, December 2004. A substantially similar article appeared in Delta Farm Press in the spring of 2005. Stober, J.T. Using Flow-Weighted Sampling to Monitor
Agricultural Runoff: The Watershed Research, Assessment and Stewardship Project. Proceedings of StormCon 2005, Orlando, FL, July 20, 2005.
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