As Congress advances the Farm Bill, strengthening voluntary conservation programs on farms, ranches, and forests is essential ...

Conservation practices are readily available for U.S. farmers to implement, but financial roadblocks commonly stymie their adoption. A study done in 2020 in cooperation between the Soil Health ...

Conservation dollars don’t implement themselves. Precision agriculture upgrades, cover crop contracts, grazing plans and ...

First authorized in the 1985 Farm Bill, CRP continues to have an important role on farms and ranches across the country.

First starting out, Jerry McBride found a used 40-by-200-foot chicken barn the owner no longer wanted, tore it down and built his first shop on his farm in Hardin County, Ohio. He repeated that ...

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 ...

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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 ...

Iowa Agriculture Secretary Mike Naig says he wants to see the federal Conservation Reserve Program reformed “to keep working lands working,” even as the number of acres enrolled in the program for ...

Editor’s note: America’s Conservation Ag Movement has embraced farmer-to-farmer knowledge transfer as a key pillar in the strategy to accelerate regenerative ag practice adoption. At the center of the ...

As the Agriculture Department promotes "regenerative" farming, promoters of climate-smart agriculture say it echoes the Biden ...

We all know fresh fruits and vegetables are good for our health – but did you know that the soil and surrounding environment the crops grow in also matters to our health and well-being? The ...