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‘Like a ghost town’: Employee exodus hammers farm conservation agency
A federal agency that provides critical land management assistance to American farmers has quietly gone dark in swaths of rural America. Agriculture Department offices for the government’s Natural Resources Conservation Service are operating with skeleton crews across the country — or no staff at all, in some cases — at a time when farmers want
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Regenerative Ag and MAHA Now Linked | By Chris Clayton, DTN Ag Policy Editor
USDA will spend up to $700 million to help more farmers use regenerative agricultural practices as part of the Trump administration's "Make America Healthy Again" agenda. The pilot program will use $400 million from the Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP) and $300 million from the Conservation Stewardship Program (CSP) and will also leverage private funding to promote conservation practices such as cover crops while helping farmers reduce the use of chemicals such as pesticides. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins announced the pilot program on Wednesday with Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
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Federal Conservation Programs Strengthen America’s Farmers, Ranchers, & National Security
The hard work farmers do each day has never been more important — however, our farmers are currently facing a variety of tough challenges that threaten their ability to do their jobs.
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Print: Portraits of Conservation showcase the impact and importance of conservation funding
Invest In Our Land launched Portraits of Conservation, a traveling visual display traveling from South Dakota to Washington, D.C., displaying the importance of conservation programs and federal funding.
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Mitchell farmer shares his experience with conservation farming | SDPB
As conservation farming practices continue to grow in popularity, many are looking to states like South Dakota to keep farmland healthy and workable for the future.
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Art installation on Corn Palace promotes conservation farming
Visitors may notice something different at the World’s Only Corn Palace: faces plastered on the walls and the words “In Mitchell, conservation is tradition. Protect it.” Invest in Our Land is a conservation farming advocacy organization who put the message together, hoping to educate Americans about safeguarding the future of U.S. farmland. Rebecca Bartels is the Executive Director of Invest in our land, as well as a Onida, South Dakota native. She said the group wants the focus on the people laying the groundwork for conservation practices, and not just policy.
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Corn Palace becomes canvas for South Dakota farmers in conservation art project
More than a hundred giant portraits of South Dakota farmers cover the walls of the Corn Palace, part of a national public art project unveiled to spotlight agricultural conservation efforts and the producers who use them.
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Conservation advocates applaud federal funding boosts, but worry USDA can’t distribute them
Farmers and conservation organizations welcomed the additional funding for some conservation programs President Donald Trump signed into law this summer. But they also worry there won’t be enough federal staff around to ensure the programs’ success.
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