Iowa NRCS Area Resource Soil Scientist Jason Steele uses his farming experience to train NRCS staff and build stronger relationships with farmers Soil scientist – to many people – may sound like a ...
CHAMPAIGN — Across Illinois and around the country, farmers, ranchers and forest landowners are working with USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Service to implement conservation practices across ...
ST. PAUL - In 1935, steep slopes in southeast Minnesota were clear cut, dust storms were carrying soil from the nation's midsection to Washington, D.C., and Hugh Hammond Bennett was campaigning for ...
Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) Soil Conservationists look over a design at the Carroll County Maryland Field Service Center in Westminster, Maryland, Feb. 6, 2020 (USDA/FPAC photo by ...
POCATELLO, Idaho — As a Natural Resources Conservation Service district conservationist in potato and sugar beet country, Nate Matlack deals with some of the nation’s most depleted soils. That’s one ...
The Dust Bowl led to the creation of what is now called the Natural Resources Conservation Service. Just as it celebrates a major milestone, the agency is dealing with job losses, massive proposed ...
When Curtis Elke took over as Idaho state conservationist of the Natural Resources Conservation Service more than five years ago, he noticed that there was an unusual level of cooperation between many ...
The NRCS conservation practice standard – Cover Crop (340) supports using grasses, legumes, and forbs for seasonal vegetative cover. Cover crops can provide many soil health benefits such as reduced ...