LAND COVER & USE

Watershed Size	3,330 acres	Number of Producers	32
Upper Lake (surface area)	39 acres	Farm Owners (female)	8
Lower Lake (surface area)	155 acres	Farm Owners (male)	42
Number of Farms	38	Limited Resource Farmers	0

Land Use Acres Sub-Total
Acres Percent of
Watershed

Highly Erodible Cropland (HEL) 1,140 - 34 percent

Not Highly Erodible Cropland 520 - 16 percent

Cropland Sub-Total - 1,660 50 percent

Conservation Reserve Program * 180 - 5 percent

Pasture, permanent 600 - 18 percent

Meadow ** 290 - 9 percent

Grassland Sub-Total - 1,070 32 percent

Woodland 280 280 8 percent

Other Land *** 320 320 10 percent

TOTAL 3,330 3,330 100 percent

* Enrolled in Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) as of July 1, 1996
** Hay fields, road ditches, and other forage areas mowed less than 3 times/year.
*** Farmsteads, households, water, roads, and railroad.

TABLE 1 - WATERSHED LAND USE

Cultivated cropland comprises approximately 50 percent of the watershed. Most producers use a corn and soybean rotation and plant winter wheat following soybeans on a portion of their total acreage. Average corn yields are about 135 bushels per acre and soybean yields are 52 bushels per acre. Approximately 70 percent of all cropland is planted no-till, 20 percent is planted using conservation tillage, and 10 percent or less is planted using conventional tillage.

CROP PRODUCTION PERCENTAGES *

Corn 40 Percent ** Soybeans 44 Percent *** Wheat 16 Percent

* Farm Service Agency crop reports, 1990 - 1994
** Includes grain sorghum
*** Does not include double-crop soybeans following wheat

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