Meanwhile, Trump’s budget recommendations for the next fiscal year include trimming $754 million from NRCS private lands conservation operations and another $16 million from watershed operations.

Soil conservation in the U.S. started with this agency 90 years ago. Now its future is uncertain ...

“I started as a customer of NRCS first,” says Aubrey Bettencourt, chief of the USDA agency that helps farmers and ranchers manage natural resources on private lands. As a third-generation ...

Soil conservation in the U.S. started with this agency 90 years ago. Now its future is uncertain ...

Travis McKay, district conservationist with the Natural Resources Conservation Service’s Sterling office, demonstrates the impact different farming techniques, conventional tilling, no-till and ...

Five Reasons Why I Started Using Conservation Practices On My Farm The most important step to making a change on your farm is determining why you are going to do it.

Carlos Suarez Carlos Suarez began his tenure as State Conservationist for USDA's Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) in California in January of 2013, but the Puerto Rico native still ...

The Natural Resources Conservation Service’s new chief says the agency is trying to “go mobile” with aims to have staff complete more work during in-person visits to farms while also ...

It was at this point that the NRCS started training UAPB Extension personnel to help producers apply for the NRCS Environmental Quality Incentive Program (EQIP).

It was at this point that the NRCS started training UAPB Extension personnel to help producers apply for the NRCS Environmental Quality Incentive Program (EQIP).