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NRCS Planning and Technical Guidance
Andy Burr
State Biologist
Salina, Kansas
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Changes
• No CP10 offered
• No points for guzzlers
• New CRP practice CP42
• NRCS technical note for pollinators
• CRP technical guidance
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CRP CP42 Pollinator Habitat
• Whole field or part of field
• CRP policy limits mix to 25% grass
• NRCS will issue a biology technical note to
provide specific pollinator guidance
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Biology Technical Note KS-37
• Provide planning information to protect and
create habitat
–NRCS may add grass to mix 0-50% (CRP
limit to 25%)
–Concern for west (I>86)
–Sample mixes will be provided
• Available in April
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CRP Technical Guidance (TG)
• TG 68 (approved cover mixes)
– Provided approved cover mixes by CP and
point scores
– Will be replaced to include pollinator mixes
– Others remain as is
• TG 70 (watering facility options)
– No points in Sign-up 41
– TG will remain
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CRP Technical Guidance (TG) cont.
• TG 71 (enhancement options)
– Will not change
• TG 72 (field reviews)
– Will not change
– CRP bid cover must be present on ≥ 75%
of field
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• TG 72 (field reviews) cont.
– When brome/western wheatgrass/old world
bluestem is < 25%, local NRCS office will
recommend management practices to
control additional encroachment and
increase species diversity
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Follow-up Training—Post Signup/Pre Plan
Development
• Field reviews
– Follow CRP TG 72
• Narratives revised for 314, 595, and 645, (light
disking)
• No cost info on Form NRCS-CPA-1155
• New Form NRCS-CPA-52 for Sign-up 41
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