The practice applies soil on areas where depressions, mounds, old terraces, turn-rows, and other surface irregularities interfere with the application of needed soil and water conservation and management practices. It is limited to areas having adequate soil depth or where topsoil can be salvaged and replaced. The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Farm Production and Conservation (FPAC) recognizes this as a best practice. The Seidenstrickers work with Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) District Conservationist Gwen Hancock, State Irrigation Engineer Charlotte Bowie, and Civil Engineering Technician Shane Harrison on their conservation plan which includes program efforts that include other portions of the irrigation system.

NRCS has a proud history of supporting America’s farmers, ranchers, and forest landowners. For more than 80 years, we have helped people make investments in their operations and local communities to keep working lands working, boost rural economies, increase the competitiveness of American agriculture, and improve the quality of our air, water, soil, and habitat.

As the USDA’s primary private lands conservation agency, we generate, manage, and share the data, technology, and standards that enable partners and policymakers to make decisions informed by objective, reliable science.

And through one-on-one, personalized advice, we work voluntarily with producers and communities to find the best solutions to meet their unique conservation and business goals. By doing so, we help ensure the health of our natural resources and the long-term sustainability of American agriculture.

FPAC is the Department’s focal point for the nation’s farmers and ranchers and other stewards of private agricultural lands and non-industrial private forest lands. Its agencies implement programs designed to mitigate the significant risks of farming through crop insurance services, conservation programs, and technical assistance, and commodity, lending, and disaster programs.

The agencies and service supporting FPAC are Farm Service Agency (FSA), Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS), and Risk Management Agency (RMA).

For more information please see www.usda.gov.

USDA Photo by Lance Cheung.

Irrigation Reservoir

U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) helped with the creation of an irrigation reservoir at Seidenstricker Farms, owned by Robert and Cathy Seidenstricker, in DeValls Bluff, AR, on June 25, 2019. The Seidenstrickers work with Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) District Conservationist Gwen Hancock, State Irrigation Engineer Charlotte Bowie, and Civil Engineering Technician Shane Harrison on their conservation plan which include program efforts that also include underground pipelines, grade stabilization structures, water control structures, tail water ditches, multiple inlet side irrigation, moisture sensors weather stations, and pumping plants.

The reservoir is formed by four tall embankments that hold 400 acre/feet of irrigation water, part of a conservation plan that includes multiple inlet side irrigation, and tailwater recovery ditches to water rice, soybeans and corn. The system is able to reuse the water 22 times before being released. There were two little used structures where the reservoir is, but it was determined to be more cost efficient to be demolished and use as an irrigation reservoir.

Resource conservation system can include irrigation reservoirs to achieve one or more of the following: Store water to provide a reliable irrigation water supply or regulate available irrigation flows; improve water use efficiency on irrigate land; provide storage for tailwater recovery and reuse; provide irrigation runoff retention time to increase breakdown of chemical contaminants; reduce energy consumption.

Natural Resources Conservation Service has a proud history of supporting America’s farmers, ranchers, and forest landowners. For more than 80 years, we have helped people make investments in their operations and local communities to keep working lands working, boost rural economies, increase the competitiveness of American agriculture, and improve the quality of our air, water, soil, and habitat.

As the USDA’s primary private lands conservation agency, we generate, manage, and share the data, technology, and standards that enable partners and policymakers to make decisions informed by objective, reliable science.

And through one-on-one, personalized advice, we work voluntarily with producers and communities to find the best solutions to meet their unique conservation and business goals. By doing so, we help ensure the health of our natural resources and the long-term sustainability of American agriculture.

Farm Production and Conservation (FPAC) is the Department’s focal point for the nation’s farmers and ranchers and other stewards of private agricultural lands and non-industrial private forest lands. FPAC agencies implement programs designed to mitigate the significant risks of farming through crop insurance services, conservation programs and technical assistance, and commodity, lending, and disaster programs.

The agencies and service supporting FPAC are Farm Service Agency (FSA), Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS), and Risk Management Agency (RMA).

For more information please see www.usda.gov.

USDA Photo by Lance Cheung.

Multiple Inlet Side irrigation

U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) helped with the implementation of multiple inlet side irrigation through flexible collapsible plastic pipe at Seidenstricker Farms, owned by Robert and Cathy Seidenstricker, in De Valls Bluff, AR, on June 25, 2019. The plastic pipe is easy to install. When tractors need to enter the field for harvest, the pipes are rolled up and recycled at the end of each season. Water runs along one side of the field, then evenly travels perpendicularly along the row crops, and into a parallel field ditch that feeds a tail water pond. Sediment then settles before being pumped back to the reservoir.

The reservoir is formed by four tall embankments that hold 400 acre/feet of irrigation water, part of a conservation plan that includes multiple inlet side irrigation, and tailwater recovery ditches to water rice, soybeans and corn. The system is able to reuse the water 22 times before being released. There were two little-used structures where the reservoir is, but it was determined to be more cost efficient to be demolished and use as an irrigation reservoir.

Resource conservation system can include irrigation reservoirs to achieve one or more of the following: Store water to provide a reliable irrigation water supply or regulate available irrigation flows; improve water use efficiency on irrigate land; provide storage for tailwater recovery and reuse; provide irrigation runoff retention time to increase breakdown of chemical contaminants; reduce energy consumption.

The Seidenstrickers work with NRCS District Conservationist Gwen Hancock, State Irrigation Engineer Charlotte Bowie, and Civil Engineering Technician Shane Harrison on their conservation plan which include program efforts that also include underground pipelines, grade stabilization structures, water control structures, tail water ditches, multiple inlet side irrigation, moisture sensors weather stations, and pumping plants.

NRCS has a proud history of supporting America’s farmers, ranchers, and forest landowners. For more than 80 years, we have helped people make investments in their operations and local communities to keep working lands working, boost rural economies, increase the competitiveness of American agriculture, and improve the quality of our air, water, soil, and habitat.

As the USDA’s primary private lands conservation agency, we generate, manage, and share the data, technology, and standards that enable partners and policymakers to make decisions informed by objective, reliable science.

And through one-on-one, personalized advice, we work voluntarily with producers and communities to find the best solutions to meet their unique conservation and business goals. By doing so, we help ensure the health of our natural resources and the long-term sustainability of American agriculture.

Farm Production and Conservation (FPAC) is the Department’s focal point for the nation’s farmers and ranchers and other stewards of private agricultural lands and non-industrial private forest lands. FPAC agencies implement programs designed to mitigate the significant risks of farming through crop insurance services, conservation programs and technical assistance, and commodity, lending, and disaster programs.

The agencies and service supporting FPAC are Farm Service Agency (FSA), NRCS, and Risk Management Agency (RMA).

For more information please see www.usda.gov.

USDA Photo by Lance Cheung.

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