Best Management Practices
In 2010, Massachusetts Farm Bureau and the MA Department of Food and Agricultural Resources engaged the UMass Cranberry Station to revise and expand the existing BMP Guide and make it available as an on-line resource. This greatly facilitates our ability to periodically revise and add practices as necessary. Currently, the guide contains 29 practices. All BMPs were re-formatted in 2010 such that each document is now consistent in style. The year of the most recent revision of relevant content is listed after each BMP title.
Intro and acknowledgements (revised 2010)
Crop and Pest Management BMPs
Disease Management (revised 2010)
Integrated Pest Management (revised 2010)
Insect Management (revised 2010)
Managing Animal Damage (revised 2010)
Nutrient Management (revised 2010)
Organic Cranberry Management (revised 2010)
Weed Management(revised 2010)
Fresh Fruit Production (revised 2003)
Cultural and Resource Management BMPs
Composting Cranberry Leaves (revised 2010)
Erosion and Sediment Control (revised 2010)
Flood Management (revised 2000)
Frost Management (revised 2000)
Harvest and Post-harvest Management (revised 2000)
Irrigation Management (revised 2000)
On-farm Energy Conservation and Efficiency (revised 2010)
Massachusetts Farm Energy Best Management Practices Guides
Sponsored by MDAR - MFEP's guides include equipment specifications, costs and payback periods and renewable energy technologies (revised 2012)
Pollinator Enhancement (revised 2010)
Pruning (revised 2010)
Sanding (revised 2000)
Sprinkler System Design and Use (revised 2010)
Tile Drains (revised 2016)
Water Control Structures (revised 2000)
Water Resource Protection and Enhancement (revised 2000)
Pesticide BMPs
Chemigation (revised 2000)
Pesticide Applications (revised 2000)
Pesticide Mixing and Loading (revised 2000)
Pesticide Storage (revised 2000)
Preventing and Responding to a Fuel or Oil Spill (revised 1996)
Rennovation and Construction BMPs
Mineral Soil Bog Construction (revised 2000)
Renovating Producing Cranberry Acreage (revised 2000)
Community BMPs
Neighbor to Neighbor (revised 2010)
RESOURCES :
Massachusetts Department of Agricultural Resources (MDAR), http://www.Mass.gov/agr.
251 Causeway Street,
Suite 500 Boston,
MA 02114-2151
Phone: (617) 626-1700
Fax: (617) 626-1850
Massachusetts Farm Bureau Federation Inc., http://www.mfbf.net/
466 Chestnut Street.
Ashland, MA 01721
Phone: (508) 881-4766
Fax: (508) 881-4768
UMass Cranberry Research and Extension Team, http://www.umass.edu/cranberry
Insects: Anne Averill, ext 20, averill@eco.umass.edu
Diseases: Erika Saalau Rojas, ext 18, esaalau@umass.edu
IPM/Weeds: Hilary Sandler, ext. 21, hsandler@umass.edu
Nutrition: Carolyn DeMoranville, ext 25, carolynd@umass.edu
Physiology: Peter Jeranyama, ext 29, peterj@umass.edu
USDA-Natural Resource Conservation Service (NRCS) http://www.ma.nrcs.usda.gov
451 West Street, Amherst, MA 01002
Phone: (413) 253-4350
Worker Protections Standards http://www.epa.gov/oecaagct/htc.html
Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection (Mass DEP)
1 Winter Street, Boston, MA 02108
Phone: (617) 292-5500
Fax: (617)556-1049
Massachusetts Division of Fisheries and Wildlife http://www.mass.gov/masswildlife
251 Causeway St., Suite 400, Boston, MA 02114
Phone: (617) 626-1590
Massachusetts Farm Energy Program http://massfarmenergy.com/
University of Massachusetts Soil & Tissue Testing Laboratory
203 Paige Laboratory, 161 Holdsworth Way, UMass, Amherst, MA 01003
Phone: (413) 545-2311.
Cape Cod Cranberry Growers’ Association
Crop Data Management Systems, Inc. http://www.cdms.net
Pesticide labels and MSDS.
