Every year we team up with the Northwest Crops and Soils Team, coordinated with Heather Darby, to teach Nutrient Management Classes. These are five week classes, usually starting in January, that give you an overview of nutrient management and help you develop your own farm plan. This plan is created to the NRCS 590 Standard.
Specific date and contact information can be found on our workshops page. In order to take the class you first have to obtain current soil tests and a land treatment plan with farm maps. If you have questions about the process of creating a nutrient management plan, feel free to contact us [cvcrops@uvm.edu, 802-388-4969]. This is a process that you have to plan for before class begins. The course utilizes goCrop, an online software tool, to create your NMP.
More information about the course can be found on the Northwest Crops and Soils site.
Useful PDFs:
- Manure Sampling Factsheet
- FACT SHEET: Fence Exclusion for Livestock Farmers‘ A short description of the ACAP program’s Livestock Exclusion cost share program to fence livestock out of streams and creeks.
- Nutrient Recommendations for Field Crops in VT
- Updated Addendum to Nutrient Recommendations for Field Crops in Vermont [2016]
- Manure Spreader Calibration
Useful Links:
- Nutrient Management Manual and Excel Sheet (NW Crops and Soil Team)
- goCrop
- UVM Agriculture and Environmental Testing Lab [for an NMP soil tests should be in Modified Morgan regardless of where you send them]
- Natural Resource Atlas (VT ANR) – for creating maps and obtaining watershed and soil information
- New England Vegetable Management Guide – Crops Page for Nutrient Management
- Water Quality and Agriculture in VT (a comprehensive list of web links compiled by the Center for Sustainable Agriculture)
- Vermont Crops and Soils Program – UVM Plant and Soil Science, Maintained by Sid Bosworth (contains many useful links!!)
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Check out our Partner Sites Page and Our Events Page for Related Information and Events on Nutrient Management!