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| section_id ▼ | title_number | title_name | chapter | subchapter | part_number | part_name | subpart | subpart_name | section_number | section_heading | agency | authority | source_citation | amendment_citations | full_text |
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| 7:7:6.1.3.6.26.1.1.1 | 7 | Agriculture | VI | F | 657 | PART 657—PRIME AND UNIQUE FARMLANDS | A | Subpart A—Important Farmlands Inventory | § 657.1 Purpose. | NRCS | NRCS is concerned about any action that tends to impair the productive capacity of American agriculture. The Nation needs to know the extent and location of the best land for producing food, feed, fiber forage, and oilseed crops. In addition to prime and unique farmlands, farmlands that are of statewide and local importance for producing these crops also need to be identified. | ||||
| 7:7:6.1.3.6.26.1.1.2 | 7 | Agriculture | VI | F | 657 | PART 657—PRIME AND UNIQUE FARMLANDS | A | Subpart A—Important Farmlands Inventory | § 657.2 Policy. | NRCS | It is NRCS policy to make and keep current an inventory of the prime farmland and unique farmland of the Nation. This inventory is to be carried out in cooperation with other interested agencies at the National, State, and local levels of government. The objective of the inventory is to identify the extent and location of important rural lands needed to produce food, feed, fiber, forage, and oilseed crops. | ||||
| 7:7:6.1.3.6.26.1.1.3 | 7 | Agriculture | VI | F | 657 | PART 657—PRIME AND UNIQUE FARMLANDS | A | Subpart A—Important Farmlands Inventory | § 657.3 Applicability. | NRCS | Inventories made under this memorandum do not constitute a designation of any land area to a specific land use. Such designations are the responsibility of appropriate local and State officials. | ||||
| 7:7:6.1.3.6.26.1.1.4 | 7 | Agriculture | VI | F | 657 | PART 657—PRIME AND UNIQUE FARMLANDS | A | Subpart A—Important Farmlands Inventory | § 657.4 NRCS responsibilities. | NRCS | [43 FR 4031, Jan. 31, 1978, as amended at 65 FR 57538, Sept. 25, 2000] | (a) State Conservationist. Each NRCS State Conservationist is to: (1) Provide leadership for inventories of important farmlands for the State, county, or other subdivision of the State. Each is to work with appropriate agencies of State government and others to establish priorities for making these inventories. (2) Identify the soil mapping units within the State that qualify as prime. In doing this, State Conservationists, in consultation with the cooperators of the National Cooperative Soil Survey, have the flexibility to make local deviation from the permeability criterion or to be more restrictive for other specific criteria in order to assure the most accurate identification of prime farmlands for a State. Each is to invite representatives of the Governor's office, agencies of the State government, and others to identify farmlands of statewide importance and unique farmlands that are to be inventoried within the framework of this memorandum. (3) Prepare a statewide list of: (i) Soil mapping units that meet the criteria for prime farmland; (ii) Soil mapping units that are farmlands of statewide importance if the criteria used were based on soil information; and (iii) Specific high-value food and fiber crops that are grown and, when combined with other favorable factors, qualify lands to meet the criteria for unique farmlands. Copies are to be furnished to NRCS Field Offices and to National Soil Survey Center. (see 7 CFR 600.2(c), 600.6) (4) Coordinate soil mapping units that qualify as prime farmlands with adjacent States, including Major Land Resource Area Offices (see 7 CFR 600.4, 600.7) responsible for the soil series. Since farmlands of statewide importance and unique farmlands are designated by others at the State level, the soil mapping units and areas identified need not be coordinated among States. (5) Instruct NRCS District Conservationists to arrange local review of lands identified as prime, unique, and additional farmlands of statewide importance by Conservation Districts and representat… | |||
| 7:7:6.1.3.6.26.1.1.5 | 7 | Agriculture | VI | F | 657 | PART 657—PRIME AND UNIQUE FARMLANDS | A | Subpart A—Important Farmlands Inventory | § 657.5 Identification of important farmlands. | NRCS | (a) Prime farmlands —(1) General. Prime farmland is land that has the best combination of physical and chemical characteristics for producing food, feed, forage, fiber, and oilseed crops, and is also available for these uses (the land could be cropland, pastureland, rangeland, forest land, or other land, but not urban built-up land or water). It has the soil quality, growing season, and moisture supply needed to economically produce sustained high yields of crops when treated and managed, including water management, according to acceptable farming methods. In general, prime farmlands have an adequate and dependable water supply from precipitation or irrigation, a favorable temperature and growing season, acceptable acidity or alkalinity, acceptable salt and sodium content, and few or no rocks. They are permeable to water and air. Prime farmlands are not excessively erodible or saturated with water for a long period of time, and they either do not flood frequently or are protected from flooding. Examples of soils that qualify as prime farmland are Palouse silt loam, 0 to 7 percent slopes; Brookston silty clay loam, drained; and Tama silty clay loam, 0 to 5 percent slopes. (2) Specific criteria. Prime farmlands meet all the following criteria: Terms used in this section are defined in USDA publications: “Soil Taxonomy, Agriculture Handbook 436”; “Soil Survey Manual, Agriculture Handbook 18”; “Rainfall-erosion Losses From Cropland, Agriculture Handbook 282”; “Wind Erosion Forces in the United States and Their Use in Predicting Soil Loss, Agriculture Handbook 346”; and “Saline and Alkali Soils, Agriculture Handbook 60.” (i) The soils have: (A) Aquic, udic, ustic, or xeric moisture regimes and sufficient available water capacity within a depth of 40 inches (1 meter), or in the root zone (root zone is the part of the soil that is penetrated or can be penetrated by plant roots) if the root zone is less than 40 inches deep, to produce the commonly grown cultivated crops (cultivated crops include, but are not limi… |
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