Signup Deadline Announced for Alabama’s Easement and Financial Assistance Programs
Signup Deadline Announced for Alabama’s Easement and Financial Assistance Programs
Signup Deadline Announced for Alabama’s Easement and Financial Assistance Programs
Alan Shadow, manager at the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service's East Texas Plant Materials Center, has been working with personnel at the Caddo Mounds State Historic Site to restore the area back to the native plants community that was there when the Caddo Tribe occupied the site.
Native warm-season grasses provide many benefits to producers and to improve the conservation of natural resources.
Sweetgrass is a clump-forming perennial grass that is native to the southern Atlantic and Gulf coasts. The leaves of this grass are used by the Gullah community, descendants of enslaved Africans in the South Carolina coastal area, as the base material for their coiled basketry.
Most cover crop species make excellent forage and cool season legumes can be used to improve wildlife habitat during winter and early spring when native food sources are scarce.
“We don’t view hay residue as wasted. It is fertilizer,” says Harold Gaugler, rancher from Grant County, North Dakota.
If the citizens of Mechanicsville, Iowa, didn’t know anything about the Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) prior to 2016, they do now.
USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) in New Jersey is now accepting applications through May 7, 2021 for the Conservation Stewardship Program’s (CSP) FY21 funding.
Cape May Plant Materials Center Manager Chris Miller was honored with the Meritorious Service Award for his contributions to the field.
Sometimes a weed is not a weed. Sometimes a weed is the best tool for the job.