Cattle feeding at a trough on a cement pad at Spring Steel Farm where owner Ronnie Cook (burgundy sweater) applied and qualified for financial and/or technical assistance from the Environmental Quality Incentive Program (EQIP) to implement Conservation Practice Standard 561 - Heavy Use Area Protection (HUAP) with cement pads to protect the soil that cattle stand on while feeding from troughs or drinking water from floating ball valve troughs, in Wagener, SC, on Nov 17, 2020. Using the technical specification of the trough pads, he added several more at his own cost. Original public domain image from Flickr