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Impact Report

For plan Agronomic Crop and Improved Pasture System Development (Roosevelt County)
Date October 19, 2009, 10:27 pm
For Objective Short-term Show short-term objectives
Impact Report Now in its second year this agent has collected rainfall amounts and forage production data for the entire county. This agent was asked in 2008 by the Farm Service Agency (FSA) County Committee to assist the Natural Resource Conservation Service in developing a better means of assessing the health of Roosevelt County grazing lands. Eight rainfall and forage production sites were set out across the county to measure precipitation and forage yield. This data will be used by the FSA County Committee to assist producers with grazing losses occurred during a given year. This agent feels this opportunity will greatly benefit county clientele by establishing production data that can be measured and compared from year to year and location to location and establish a useful database for future use. Loss of production can then be evaluated by the County Committee to determine if compensation is justifiable for producers. The undertaking of this rainfall collection program has also allowed for the collaboration with the Water Resource Specialist based in Las Cruces to collect rainfall data for use with the Community Collaborative Rain, Hail, and Snow Network (CoCoRaHS) system. With that relationship established this agent set up a CoCoRaHs training for Roosevelt County. Tweleve residents of Roosevelt County Data now collect data for the program because of their participation in the training program. Precipitation data from these collection sites is being used by CoCoRaHS system to establish rainfall patterns across the western United States. This data will be used for a variety of purposes by this collection group. Coordinating this project has allowed has opened a line of communication with producers and has allowed this agent to stay current on issues happening around the county.