Purpose: To exclude livestock from areas that should be protected from grazing, protect new seedlings and plantings from grazing, subdivide grazing land to permit use of grazing systems and utilize grazing management strategies to enhance grass conditions, or to prevent concentration of animals in the riparian zone.
Conditions Where Practice Applies:
Where practice is utilized:
a. To exclude livestock from riparian or wetland areas.
b. Relocate livestock feeding areas as a pollution control
practice.
c. As a cross-fence when implementing a grazing management
plan.
d. In conjunction with another eligible practice requiring
fencing such as waste treatment lagoon or
windbreak/shelterbelt establishment.
e. Existing ponds are eligible for fencing if te pond meets
NRCS design specifications or meets eligibility requirements
using form KS-ENG-4a. Must be constructed or installed
to serve pasture 40 acres or larger.
