CLC Manual

Use the links below to access the Green Lands Blue Waters Continuous Living Cover Manual.

This manual was originally produced in 2015 with support from a North Central Region SARE Professional Development Program grant (NCR-SARE-PDP) by Jane Grimsbo Jewett and Sadie Schroeder.

Full Continuous Living Cover Manual (248 pages, opens in new browser tab)

CLC Manual Chapters:

Acknowledgments

Continuous Living Cover Introduction

Continuous Living Cover Practices

Continuous Living Cover Funding Opportunities

Perennial Forage in the Crop Rotation

Cover Crops

Agroforestry

Perennial Grains

Biomass

Cultivating Leadership

EQIP, CSP, and CLC

Integrating Livestock

Placement of Continuous Living Cover

Prevent Gully Erosion

Sensitive Lands

Stacking of Continuous Living Cover Strategies

Tools of the Trade

Farmer Profile Library

Farmer Profiles:

• • Brad, Sue, and Andrew Johnson
  • Fred Abels
  • Gene Schriefer
  • John & Beverly Gilbert
  • Kent & Linda Solberg
  • Pastures A Plenty
  • Prairie Horizons Farm
  • Ted & Gretchen Johnson
  • Tom & Irene Frantzen
  • Tony Thompson & Sonya Buller

Bibliography

Appendices

• • Basics of Contract Grazing
  • Pasture Rental and Lease Agreements
  • Evaluating Land Suitability for Grazing Cattle
  • Rates Charged for Contract Grazing Arrangements
  • Practices to Improve Water Quality
  • Income Opportunities with Agroforestry
  • Energy and Economic Returns by Crop Rotation
  • Long Term Effects of Crop Management: Profitability
  • Long Term Effects of Crop Management: Soil Quality
  • Long Term Effects of Crop Management: Yield
  • Small Changes, Big Impacts: Prairie STRIPS
  • Cost of Prairie STRIPS
  • Impact of Prairie STRIPS