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Resource Conserving Crop Rotations and Resource Conserving Crops
Conservation Stewardship Program (CSP)

Updated 9/8/2009

If these resource conserving crops are part of a resource-conserving crop rotation(s), a CSP participant may receive a supplemental payment.

Resource Conserving Crops
  1. Perennial grass, legume, or grass/legume used as forage, seed for planting, or green manure:
    Bermuda (seed & hay), tall fescue, orchard grass, timothy, alfalfa
  2. High residue producing crop:
    Sorghum (grain), millet (grain), sudan grass, small grains (wheat, barley, oats)
  3. Cover crop following an annual crop-crop residue must not be removed:
    Small grains (oats, barley, wheat), ryegrass (cereal, annual), Triticale

Resource Conserving Crop Rotations

  Crop Crop Crop Crop
Crop Rotation
One		 Corn Oats-cover crop (no harvest or residue removal ) Pinto Beans Oats (hay)
Crop Rotation
Two		 Oats (hay) Corn Oats-cover crop (no harvest or residue removal)  
Crop Rotation
Three		 Cotton Small grain-cover crop (no harvest or residue removal ) Cotton  
Crop Rotation
Four		 Alfalfa (5yrs) Cotton    
Crop Rotation
Five		 Perennial Grass
-5 years (pasture/hay/seed production)		 Small grain    


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