Agricultural best management practices
Find a list of publications about conserving a farm’s soil and water resources without losing productivity. This technical information is for Ontario producers.
Introduction
The Best Management Practices (BMP) series is an award-winning series of innovative publications:
- presenting affordable options for protecting soil and water resources on the farm
- supporting individual farm planning and decision-making in the short and long term
- harmonizing productivity, business objectives and the environment
- available in both English and French
Each book presents a range of circumstances and options to address a particular environmental concern. Use the information to assess what’s appropriate for your property.
Every BMP publication will help you:
- understand an environmental issue in context of your operation or property
- see options for addressing an issue that work with your circumstances
- plan and put farm-proven, environmentally responsible management practices into action
- increase efficiencies in resource use and production
- improve property now and for future generations
- demonstrate stewardship to neighbours
- create long-term plans and sharpen day-to-day decision-making
- enrich natural areas
BMP publications range from infosheets to in-depth booklets. For each topic you’ll learn more about the roots of a problem, such as cropland erosion, and find a range of BMP options from which to choose the right solutions for your property and goals.
All the BMP resources are found in the virtual library of Best Management Practices books, booklets and infosheets.
Best Management Practices books
- A phosphorus primer
- Application of municipal sewage biosolids to cropland
- Best management practices for phosphorus
- Buffer strips
- Controlling soil erosion on the farm
- Cropland drainage
- Deadstock disposal
- Establishing tree cover
- Field crop production
- Fish and wildlife habitat management
- Greenhouse gas reduction in livestock production systems
- Horticultural crops
- Integrated pest management
- Irrigation management
- Managing crop nutrients
- Manure management
- No-till: making it work
- Nutrient management planning
- On-farm energy: a primer
- Pesticide storage, handling and application
- SepticSmart!
- Soil management
- Streamside grazing
- Water and fertilizer use for greenhouse floriculture production
- Water and fertilizer use for outdoor container production
- Water and fertilizer use in greenhouse vegetable production
- Water management
- Water wells
- Woodlot management
Soil health infosheets
- Adding organic amendments
- Buffer strips
- Cold and wet soils
- Contour farming and strip cropping
- Cover crops and manure application
- Cropland retirement
- Droughtiness
- Erosion control structures
- Field windbreaks
- Inter-seeding cover crops
- Low fertility
- Mulch tillage
- No-till for soil health
- Perennial systems
- pH extremes
- Residue management
- Rotation of agronomic crops
- Soil erosion by water
- Soil health in Ontario
- Soil remediation
- Strip-tillage in Ontario: making it work
- Strip-tillage in Ontario: the basics
- Subsidence
- Subsurface compaction
- Subsurface drainage
- Surface crusting
- Tillage erosion
- Wind erosion
- Windstrips
- Winter cover crops
Order a publication
Order printed copies through ServiceOntario by phone, Monday to Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.
416-326-5300 416-325-3408 (TTY)1-800-668-9938 toll-free across Canada1-800-268-7095 (TTY) toll-free across Ontario
You can also order online copies through Publications Ontario.
Disclaimer
If you require this information in an alternative format, please contact ag.info.omafra@ontario.ca. We will:
- acknowledge your request within three business days
- provide you with the content within 15 business days