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The policy and programming applicability of WEBs research will be further enhanced by linking what is known about the environmental performance of BMPs to producers' on-farm economic and non-economic motivations. An opportunity exists to use WEBs experience to date in order to design and invoke a pre-screening mechanism by which to identify those BMPs which are most likely to have a beneficial on-farm beneficial versus those having primarily an off-farm beneficial - and to focus investigative resources towards quantifying probable effects. As well, the targeting of certain BMPs to specific areas of a watershed to achieve desired water quality results may well prove cost effective from a programming perspective.
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