A beneficial management practice or BMP is any production practice, management system, or even a technology, that has an environmental benefit while being practical and affordable.

What Kind of BMPs is the AALL interested in?

We are focused on measuring the impacts of beneficial management practices (BMPs) in:

Cropping Rotations and Systems;

Cropping BMPs include practices such as integrating livestock and crop land, yield mapping, zero/reduced tillage, residue management, soil testing, intercropping, cover cropping, polycultures, soil additives, including pulses, forages, or winter cereals in rotation, reducing summer fallow, variable rate seeding/irrigation, fertigation, green manure, soil additives, controlled field traffic lanes, etc.

Land Use Changes;

Land use BMPs include practices such as wetland restoration, marginal land conversion to forage, riparian area buffer zones, intercropping with trees, shelter belt management, silvopasture, pasture rejuvenation, etc.

Nutrient/Fertilizer Management;

Nutrient/Fertilizer management BMPs include practices such as 4R (right rate, right place, right source and right time) fertilizer management, manure management (storage, stockpiling, composting, etc.), nitrification inhibitors, high efficiency fertilizers, utilization of manure on crop land, drainage management, etc.

Livestock and Grazing Management;

Livestock and Grazing BMPs include practices such as Rotational grazing (including more intensive rotations like adaptive multi-paddock (AMP) grazing, cell grazing, mob grazing), optimizing stocking rates, extended grazing (e.g., bale, swath, stockpiled), grazing annual crops or polycultures, feed additives, diet formulation strategies, precision feeding technologies, etc.

Optimizing Carbon Storage in Production Systems;

This activity recognizes that carbon storage on a landscape is not identical and seeks to identify where the most gains can be achieved.

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