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NRCS Announces Sign-Up for 2022 Program Offerings

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Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) New Jersey is now accepting FY2022 applications for the Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP), the Agricultural Management Assistance (AMA) program and the Regional Conservation Partnership Program (RCPP) through October 22, 2021.

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USDA Invests More than $46 Million to Protect Communities from Wildfires, Restore Forest Ecosystems and Improve Drinking Water

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 The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) will invest more than $46 million this year through the Joint Chiefs’ Landscape Restoration Partnership for projects that mitigate wildfire risk, improve water quality, and restore healthy forest ecosystems on public and private lands.

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Businesswoman Turned Farmer Earns 2020 Iowa Conservation Woman of the Year

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A decade ago, Maggie McQuown was figuring out what to do with the rest of her life. She had just taken early disability retirement from her business career in the Dallas Metro area after being diagnosed with Dystonia – a neuromuscular movement disorder causing the muscles to contract uncontrollably.