Partner Success Story - Bradshaw Drop Irrigation Project

Location: Jackson County

A symphony of songbirds at Red Apple Farm

Early one morning, in the summer of 2018, Bill Rose was walking through a forested area of his family’s farm in Phillipston, Mass. The area had been clear cut as part of a forest conservation project. 

Endangered Species Making A Comeback in Indiana

Indiana NRCS is helping bring back the Interior Least Terns

Widowed Landowner Succeeds with Conservation in Lease Agreements

For nearly 50 years Virginia Reynolds and her late husband Larry worked together to manage their farms to conserve soil and protect water quality. After Larry passed away in 2013, she wrote soil and water conservation practice requirements into the leases for her Clarke County cropland.

Bringing oysters back to Bissel Cove

The decline of natural oyster communities in Rhode Island waters isn’t just bad news for shellfish lovers. Oysters fill an ecological niche and filter the water, keeping it clean.

NRCS Provides Recommendations to Minimize Compacted Soils After Harvest

Soil conservationists with USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) are encouraging Iowa farmers to keep heavy machinery out of wet fields as much and for as long as possible this fall after prolonged above average rainfall wreaked havoc on harvest conditions.

Dream Becomes Reality for Beginning/Military Veteran Farmers in Indiana

Jon and Caleb Richer worked with NRCS through the EQIP program to rebuild their family's 160-acre farm.

USDA Website Puts Soils Information, Tools at Your Fingertips

 USDA has re-designed its Soil Tools web page, to now serve as a one-stop source for new, leading-edge tools and technologies to help farmers, ranchers, and other land users understand, evaluate and conserve soils.

Partnering to Conserve a Sagebrush Landscape

The Southwest Montana Sagebrush Partnership is working with landowners to conserve and restore sagebrush ecosystems.

SPECIAL OUTREACH - Where Does Our Food Come From?

Idaho Falls District Conservationist Josh Miller and Soil Conservationist Tacia Williams facilitated and helped with an education event on Sept. 28, 2018, for a group of developmentally disabled adults.