Chapter 5
Evaluation of Best Management Practices in the Mississippi Delta Management Systems Evaluation Area
Downloaded by UNIV LAVAL on April 22, 2018 | https://pubs.acs.org Publication Date: April 13, 2004 | doi: 10.1021/bk-2004-0877.ch005
Seth M. Dabney, Yongping Yuan, and Ronald L. Bingner National Sedimentation Laboratory, Agricultural Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, 598 McElroy Drive, Oxford, MS 38655
Best Management Practices (BMPs) with potential to cost— effectively reduce sediment yield from agricultural fields were evaluated in a combination of field and computer modeling studies. BMPs included: no-till, reduced-till, cover crops, filter strips, grade-control pipes, and impoundments. A cost/benefit analysis was conducted in which initial and future costs were combined into a single current cost using annuity calculations with a 25-year planning horizon. Benefits were determined as the mean sediment yield reduction predicted in a 50-yr simulation using the model AnnAGNPS, Version 2.0. No-till and a permanent impoundment covering