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Honey Creek Targeted Watershed
Stratified Soil Sampling&
Best Management Practices
Honey Creek Targeted Watershed
Goals and Objectives
Reduce Export of Total Phosphorus and Dissolved Phosphorus
Reduce the amount of time Nitrate Concentrations exceed drinking water standards
Reverse the upward trend of stream flashiness
Honey Creek Targeted Watershed
US EPA Grant5 year duration$900,000Target the worst firstPractice payments up to $60/acre
Advisory CommitteePRIVATE INDIVIDUALSKen HetzelKurt DunnCurt SwartzmillerChris WellmanJohn Crumrine
INDUSTRYDean ZeiglerJerry Cunningham
AGENCYMike HallCary BricknerTia RiceMary Ann HawkCindy BrookesDave Baker
BOARD MEMBERSChris Schimpf
Ranking CriteriaPredominate Slope
A = 1, B = 2, C = 3
Surface Phosphorus Levels >60lb/ac = 1, >90lb/ac=2, >120lb/ac = 3,
>180lb/ac = 4
Proximity to a Water Course> 2640 ft = 1, 1320-2640 ft = 2, <1320 ft = 3
Total = ______6
Payment Levels
Level 6 7 8 9Cover Crop $20 $25 $30 $35Wheat Crop $25 $30 $35 $40Hay Planting $30 $40 $50 $60P Injection $15 $20 $25 $30Zero P $10 $20 $30 $40Plow Once $10 $20 $30 $40
Honey Creek Grant
Recently added incentives
◦Nitrogen Stabilizers (Instinct, Agrotain Plus, ESN, SuperU, Nutrisphere, etc.
◦Grid Soil Sampling when used with Variable Rate Application
◦Water Control Structures
Honey Creek Participation 2008
Honey Creek Participation 2010
Honey Creek Participation 2012
Participation Acres and Dollars
Year Acres Applied
Acres Accepted
Total $$
2008 412 223 $51502009 3709 2659 $649642012 7394 5153 $138562
The most utilized practices
Year Wheat /SST Cover Crop / SST2008 $5150 $8202009 $51276 $102812012 $49041 $74395
Wheat / SST Cover / SST$54000 $7500
proposed annual cost incentive payments for the duration of grant
Least utilized practices
Year Hay No P P Injection
N Stabilizer
VRT
2008 $420 $0 $0 N/A N/A2009 $1133 $2274 $0 N/A N/A2012 $410 $0 $3945 $4110 $$353
**The plow once system was never utilized
proposed annual cost incentive payments for the duration of grantHay / SST No P application P Injection$2400 $6000 $9000
Grant ends December 2013Roughly $40,000 remain for this yearPriority will be cover crop and P injection
Winter Cover in 2012
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