Are you an agricultural landowner interested in protecting the integrity of your property? Consider safeguarding your land with a conservation easement through the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA ...

Conservation agriculture practices like precision fertilizer application and cover crops can offer a multitude of benefits, including improving soil health, reducing crop losses during severe weather ...

Sustainable inputs and conservation practices improve soil health. (Natural Resources Conservation Service photo) Some 69 million acres were enrolled in the Conservation Stewardship Program in fiscal ...

This work was made possible through the generous funding provided by the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD). The Conservation Agriculture in Crop-Livestock Systems (CLCA) project, ...

MITCHELL, S.D. — Conservation is an important piece of agriculture, and one organization is working to showcase that need. Invest In Our Land is dedicated to making sure policymakers and the public ...

A strip-tilled farm field, pictured Nov. 18, 2020, has been seeded with a cover crop in rural Linn County. Fewer than one-quarter of Iowa applications for federal cost sharing for farm conservation ...

Sugar cane farms on land set aside for Everglades restoration? Peanut farming on property that could have been a Florida state park? That’s what some environmental groups are worried about with a ...

American Farmland Trust’s Farmland Information Center recently released results from its annual survey of state Purchase of Agricultural Conservation Easement programs. Purchase of Agricultural ...

Mark Twain once famously said, “Whiskey is for drinking, water is for fighting over.” Recently, Reps. Yadira Caraveo, D-CO, and Jake LaTurner, R-KS, jointly introduced the bipartisan Voluntary ...

WASHINGTON -- An agriculture-focused organization has recruited Arkansas farmers and ranchers to join a campaign urging federal lawmakers to protect conservation funding included in President Joe ...