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    • Watershed Planning
      • Completed Watershed Plans
      • Current Planning Area
      • Water Quality Data
      • Projects
      • Resource Agencies
      • Watershed Grants
    • Best Management Practices
      • Best Management Practices
      • Agriculture
      • Homeowner
      • Builder/Developers
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      • County Programs
      • Stream & Pond Owner
      • Prairie Seed & Plant
    • Watershed Education
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  • Home
  • Watershed Planning
    • Completed Watershed Plans
    • Current Planning Area
    • Water Quality Data
    • Projects
    • Resource Agencies
    • Watershed Grants
  • Best Management Practices
    • Best Management Practices
    • Agriculture
    • Homeowner
    • Builder/Developers
    • Municipal Representative
    • County Programs
    • Stream & Pond Owner
    • Prairie Seed & Plant
  • Watershed Education
  • Regulations
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Conservation on the Farm that Improves Water Quality

Featured Videos

Soil Health

Going organic might not be the best fit for you, but you can learn quite a bit about the fundamentals of soil health through this video produced by NRCS. 

Cover Crops 101 Video Series

Learn about cover crops through a series of four videos produced by the Illinois Council on Best Management Practices (C-BMP). The videos feature Mike Plumer, cover crop specialist with C-BMP, and focus on cover crop topics such as how to get started, pros and cons of the practice, when to start planning and cover crop choices for Illinois farmers.  View all the videos on the C-BMP YouTube channel. 


Woodchip Bioreactor

Learn about woodchip bioreactor in this video produced by Illinois LICA. 

 Explore more of IL LICA projects HERE.

Saturated Buffer

Learn about them in this short video produced by Iowa Farm Bureau.  

Agriculture BMPs

Cover Crops to Improve Soil (pdf)Download
Multifunctional Perennial Filter Strips Brochure (pdf)Download
Bioengineering Techniques to Improve Instream Habitat (pdf)Download
Restore Ponds, Riffles, and Natural Channel Substrates (pdf)Download
Create & Restore Wetlands and Depressional Areas (pdf)Download
Benefits of the Functional 100-year Floodplain (pdf)Download

Midwest Cover Crops Council - Cover Crop Decision Tool

The Cover Crop Decision Tool is an initiative by the MCCC to consolidate cover crop information by state to help farmers make cover crop selections at the county level. Follow the link below to view the web-based tool.

Cover Crop Decision Tool

Federal Programs - USDA

NRCS Programs


FSA Programs

Cost Share Programs

FEDERAL COST SHARE PROGRAMS

FEDERAL COST SHARE PROGRAMS

FEDERAL COST SHARE PROGRAMS

NRCS Programs


FSA Programs

STATE COST SHARE PROGRAMS

FEDERAL COST SHARE PROGRAMS

FEDERAL COST SHARE PROGRAMS

Partners for Conservation (PFC) Cost-share Program

*Contact your local SWCD for details*


Illinois Department of Natural Resources - Conservation Programs


Illinois Water Well Abandonment Practice (IWWAP)


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