The Pennsylvania Most Effective Basins Program will fund projects that accelerate implementation of cost-effective agricultural best management practices (\u201cpractices\u201d) in selected basins of the Chesapeake Bay watershed of Pennsylvania.\u00a0<\/p>\n
EPA and NFWF have identified a list eligible practices for the PA-MEB program, based on the demonstrated ability of these practices to yield relatively low-cost reductions in agricultural nitrogen loading. Notably, these eligible practices include both annual (i.e., \u201cmanagement\u201d) practices that require ongoing implementation to yield creditable load reduction benefits in future years, as well as structural (i.e., \u201cengineered\u201d) practices that, once implemented, generate multiple years of creditable load reductions based on their continued performance on the landscape. Eligible practices include:<\/p>\n
\tTillage Management
\n\tTree Planting
\n\tWetland Restoration
\n\tPrescribed Grazing
\n\tAnimal Waste Management Systems
\n\tManure Incorporation
\n\tManure Injection
\n\tManure Transport
\n\tBarnyard Runoff Control
\n\tLoafing Lot Management
\n\tAlternative Crops
\n\tRetirement of Highly Erodible Land
\n\tCover Crops \u2013 Traditional
\n\tCover Crops \u2013 Commodity
\n\tForest and Grass Buffers
\n\tForest and Grass Buffers with Stream Exclusion Fencing
\n\tCore Nutrient Management \u2013 Nitrogen
\n\tSupplemental Nutrient Management \u2013 N Rate
\n\tSupplemental Nutrient Management \u2013 N Placement
\n\tSupplemental Nutrient Management \u2013 N Timing
\n\tSoil and Water Conservation Plan<\/p>\n
The Most Effective Basins Program will follow these priorities:<\/p>\n
\tCost-Effectiveness for Agricultural Nitrogen Load Reductions
\n\tReadiness to Proceed
\n\tConservation and Farm Management Co-Benefits<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Pennsylvania Most Effective Basins Program will fund projects that accelerate implementation of cost-effective agricultural best management practices…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":284635,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-284634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=284634"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284634\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/284635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=284634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=284634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=284634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}