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NEW ORLEANS, Feb. 13, 2023 – Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is making funding available for agricultural producers and forest landowners nationwide to participate in voluntary conservation programs and adopt...

Steward Link® staff members Nick Thomas and Will Primos recently attended the 2023 NACD annual meeting in New Orleans to meet with conservation leaders and discuss upcoming program opportunities.

Contact:[email protected] WASHINGTON, March 15, 2021 – The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is investing $28 million in six new Wetland Reserve Enhancement Partnership (WREP) projects and four ongoing ones, which enable conservation partners and producers to...

WASHINGTON, March 12, 2021 – The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) today announced that it isaccepting Conservation Stewardship Program (CSP) renewal applications through March 31 for over 11,000contracts set to end this year. CSP is USDA’s largest working lands...

Matt Ollendieck had been trying cover crops on part of his farm near LaPorte, City, Iowa, when he decided last year to sign up for a pilot project that sells the environmental benefits from his work. Matt Ollendieck is an Iowa farmer He put all of his acres, planted...

Shared tens of thousands of times on Facebook, posts claim that Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden “wants American farmers to put their farmland into ‘land banks’” whereby the federal government “would then tell farmers what ‘sustainable’ plants they could...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) today announced the signup periods for the Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) and the CRP Grasslands in 2021. Signup for general CRP will be open from Jan. 4, 2021, to Feb. 12, 2021, and signup for CRP Grasslands runs from...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) has completed and published updates to its set of National Conservation Practice Standards, which include 58 standards that have been updated or revised since August. The 2018...

1. WHEAT FUTURES HIGHER OVERNIGHT ON ADVERSE GLOBAL WEATHER Wheat futures were higher in overnight trading amid dry weather in several global growing areas. Dry weather is expected in much of the U.S. southern Plains for at least the next week or two, according to the...

WASHINGTON, Oct. 1, 2020 – The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has named 379 priority watersheds to help agricultural producers improve water quality across the country. Producers in these targeted watersheds will receive focused financial and technical...