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4.6 Liability Period Management - Reclaimed Irrigated Pastureland <br />Maintenance activities will include the normal monitoring for and repair of excessive rilling or <br />gulling, weed and pest control. The rill and gully management and stabilization plan is detailed <br />after the end of this section. Weed and pest control management will be conducted as necessary <br />and in accordance with the plan described after the end of this section. <br />Grazing of the Reclaimed Irrigated Pastureland will not be considered during the first growing <br />season in order to reduce trampling and pulling of the plants by livestock. If significant growth <br />needs to be removed during the first season, mechanical harvesting will be used. Grazing will only <br />be applied to the Reclaimed Irrigated Pastureland areas after the first growing season. Following <br />the first season, either grazing or mechanical harvesting will be used as part of the management <br />of the Reclaimed Irrigated Pastureland areas. Harvested hay will be removed from the fields as <br />rapidly as hay quality and weather conditions permit. <br />Grazing management will be coordinated with the owner of the herd that is contracted to graze the <br />reclaimed and /or reference areas. Length of the grazing period and intensity of the grazing activity <br />(number of animals over a given area) will be determined based previous successful grazing <br />practices on irrigated pastureland areas on the New Horizon property. <br />During years in which sampling is conducted for release application, grazing will be deferred until <br />after the sampling is completed on both reclaimed and reference IP areas. <br />Grazing that occurs on the reclaimed lands will also be duplicated to the same degree and the <br />same time on the Irrigated Pasture reference area. During years when the reclaimed area is <br />harvested mechanically, grazing on the reference area will be conducted in a manner that mimics <br />mechanical harvesting as closely as is practicable. <br />As shown on the NRCS letter on the following page, interseeding is allowed in Reclaimed Irrigated <br />Pastureland as a normal husbandry practice. This may be utilized during the liability period. <br />PR -06 June 2010 2.05.4(2)(e) - 37 <br />