The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has announced the enrollment periods for agricultural producers and landowners to submit offers for the Continuous and General Conservation Reserve Program ...

Due to the growing number of climate-smart programs that are available to growers, it can be hard to navigate. That’s just what the Conservation Connector was intended to change. Developed by The ...

A new report examines the scope of PFAS challenges in agriculture and identifies steps that land conservation agencies at the U.S. Department of Agriculture could take to reduce the impacts of these ...

Judith Puncochar prunes a tree on her farm outside of Saint Paul, Nebraska. Most of Puncochar's farm is enrolled in the Conservation Reserve Program, a federal land conservation initiative that she ...

The Department of Agriculture is boosting enrollment in the Conservation Reserve Program but being less stringent on environmental measurements. A program that rewards farmers for turning ...

Conservation programs do incredible work and have done so for decades. Many animal and habitat conservation efforts, both large and small, are successful. However, some conservation programs launch ...

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 ...

It took three tries for Jacob Bolson to secure a spot in the Agriculture Department’s Conservation Stewardship Program. The Iowa farmer filed his first application in 2021. Denied. He made another ...

Nebraska is known as the “Tree Planters State” and the home of Arbor Day, the National Arbor Day Foundation and Arbor Lodge in Nebraska City, arguably the birthplace of tree-planting efforts in the ...