NRCS Announces Second EQIP & RCPP Signup for 2024 Funding
Agricultural producers, farmers, and forest landowners need to apply by May 17, 2024 for the second round of funding in fiscal year 2024.
Agricultural producers, farmers, and forest landowners need to apply by May 17, 2024 for the second round of funding in fiscal year 2024.
What does someone do who buys out a dairy farm wanting nothing to do with cattle, but rather to return the land to the thriving tall grass prairie it once was? She gets help from NRCS and other partners leading her back to cows to reach her goal.
USDA Launches New Bobwhite Conservation Pilot and Announces General Conservation Reserve Program Signup
After attending a Pollinator Field Day event, Leslie Meyer of Hideaway Farm decided to “bring back the balance of nature and give something back” by converting fourteen acres of her land to a native prairie planting habitat for pollinators and wildlife with help from her local NRCS service center.
Alabama Now Accepting Regional Conservation Partnership Program Applications (RCPP)
Wisconsin natural resource agencies team up to restore an Oconto County family forestland after an “inland hurricane” threatens 5 generations of dedicated forest management with assistance from the Natural Resources Conservation Service Environmental Quality Incentives Program.
NRCS Works with Muncy Historical Society to Enhance Local Parks
Approximately $500,000 ($50,000/city) is available from the USDA People’s Garden Initiative to fund projects that will support community-based projects that promote sustainable agriculture practices that benefit people and wildlife
Conservation Notes is the NRCS-Michigan bimonthly newsletter highlighting conservation opportunities, events, and success stories.
Private landowners, tribes, land trusts and other groups wanting to restore and protect critical wetlands and protect agricultural lands and grasslands through the USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) Agricultural Conservation Easement Program (ACEP) have until November 30, 2023