NRCS Oklahoma Announces First FY2024 Application Batching Date for Conservation Stewardship Program (CSP), Agricultural Conservation Easement Program (ACEP) and Environmental Quality Incentives ...
Five former Natural Resources Conservation Chiefs are joining specialty crop growers in calling for a loosening of income restrictions for conservation programs, but opponents worry that easing the ...
CSP enhancements are pushing Rooney Farms to the next level of conservation, as the family farming operators experience the soil health, water quality and economic benefits of no-till farming, ...
Iowa landowners are used to hearing “no” when they apply for federal conservation funding. Fewer than one-quarter of Iowa applications for cost sharing through the Environmental Quality Incentives ...
A report from the Center for Rural Affairs found that funding from the Inflation Reduction Act had a “significant impact” on the adoption of conservation practices in Iowa. The report examined two ...
When the U.S. Department of Agriculture denied Albert Johnson Sr.’s application for a farm loan in the mid-1980s, he went to a private lender who made him list as collateral all 20 of his cattle and ...