CSP Michigan Enhancements

"Enhancement" means a type of conservation activity used to treat natural resources and improve conservation performance. Enhancements are installed at a level of management intensity that exceeds the sustainable level for a given resource concern. Enhancements directly related to a practice standard are applied in a manner that exceeds the minimum treatment requirements of the standard.

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Air Quality Enhancements:
AIR03 – Replace burning of prunings, removals and other crop residues with non-burning alternatives
AIR04 – Use drift reducing nozzles, low pressures, lower boom height, and adjuvants to reduce pesticide drift
AIR07 – GPS, targeted spray application
AIR-08 - Nitrification inhibitors or urease inhibitors

Animal Enhancements:
ANM03 - Incorporate native grasses and/or legumes
ANM05 - Extending riparian forest buffers
ANM07 - Extending existing field borders
ANM09 - Grazing management to improve wildlife habitat
ANM10 – Harvest hay in a manner that allows wildlife to flush and escape
ANM11 – Patch-burning to enhance wildlife habitat
ANM12 – Shallow water habitat
ANM17- Monitoring nutritional status of livestock using the NUTBAL PRO System
ANM18- Retrofit Watering Facility for Wildlife Escape
ANM21-Prairie restoration
ANM23 – Multi-species native perennials for biomass/wildlife habitat
ANM25 – Stockpiling of forages to extend the grazing season
ANM26 – Managing calving to coincide with forage availability
ANM27 – Wildlife-friendly fencing
ANM29 – On-farm forage based grazing system
ANM31 - Drainage water management
ANM32 - Extend existing filter strips or riparian herbaceous cover
ANM33 - Riparian buffer, terrestrial and aquatic wildlife habitat
ANM34 - Leave standing grain crops un-harvested to benefit wildlife

Cropland Enhancement Bundle
BCR06 - Improves nutrient and pesticide application techniques and widen buffers
BCR07 - Addresses orchard and vineyard resource concerns
BCR08 - Reduces inputs, improves soil and water quality, benefits pollinators and beneficial insects

Forest Enhancement Bundle:
BFO06 - Improves wildlife habitat and soil quality

Pasture Enhancement Bundle:
BPA06 - Improves wildlife habitat
BPA07 - Improves forage utilization
BPA08 - Addresses all aspects of pasture management

Range Enhancement Bundle:
BRA05 - Addresses multiple resource concerns
BRA06 - Improves wildlife habitat and water quality
BRA07 - Addresses multiple resource concerns

Resource Conserving Crop Rotation
CCR99 - Resource Conserving Crop Rotation

Energy Enhancement Activities:
ENR01- Fuel use reduction for field operations
ENR09 - Variable Frequency Drive Electric Motors
ENR10 - Using nitrogen provided by legumes, animal manure and compost
ENR11 - Improving energy feedstock production using alley cropping systems with short rotation woody crops
ENR12 - Use of legume cover crops as a nitrogen source

On Farm Pilot Project:
FPP02 - On-farm pilot project

On Farm Research and Demonstration:
FRD01 - On Farm Research and Demonstration

Plant Enhancements:

PLT02 – Grazing management to improve wildlife habitat
PLT05 – Multi-story cropping, sustainable management of non-timber forest plants
PLT06 - Renovation of a windbreak, shelter belt or hedgerow
PLT15 – Establish pollinator and/or beneficial insect habitat
PLT16 - Intensive management of rotational grazing
PLT17 - Creating forest openings to improve hardwood stands
PLT18 - Increasing on-farm food production with edible woody buffer landscapes

Soil Erosion Enhancements:
SOE03 - Continuous no-till (organic system)
SOE04 - Continuous no-till

Soil Quality Enhancements:
SQL01 – Controlled traffic system
SQL02 - Continuous cover crops
SQL03 – Drainage water management
SQL04 – Use of cover crop mixes
SQL05 – Use of deep rooted crops to break up soil compaction
SQL08 – Intercropping to improve soil quality and increase biodiversity
SQL09 - Conversion of cropped land to grass-based agriculture

Water Quality Enhancements:
WQL01- Biological suppression and other non-chemical techniques
WQL03 - Rotation of supplement and feeding areas
WQL04 – Plant tissue testing and analysis
WQL05 - Apply nutrients no more than 30 days prior to planned planting date
WQL07 – Split nitrogen applications, 50% after crop emergence or pasture green up
WQL09 – Apply phosphorus fertilizer below the soil surface
WQL10 – Plant a cover crop that will scavenge residual nitrogen
WQL11 – Precision application technology to apply nutrients
WQL13 – High level integrated pest management
WQL14 – Land application of treated manure
WQL17 - Use of non-chemical methods to kill cover crops
WQL18 - Non-chemical pest control for livestock
WQL19- Transition to organic grazing systems
WQL20 - Transition to organic cropping systems
WQL21 - Integrated pest management for organic farming
WQL22 - On-farm composting of farm organic waste
WQL24 - Apply enhanced efficiency fertilizer products
WQL25 - Split applications of nitrogen based on a PSNT
WQL26 - Reduce the concentration of nutrients imported on farm

Water Quantity Enhancements:
WQT01 – Irrigation system automation
WQT03 - Irrigation pumping plant evaluation

WQT05 - Remote monitoring and notification of irrigation pumping plant operation
WQT07 - Regional weather networks for irrigation scheduling
WQT08 - Decrease irrigation water quantity or conversion to non-irrigated crop production

Programs

Michigan Supplemental Enhancement Activity Job Sheets - 2012