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

Questions?