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The U. S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is streamlining its Agricultural Conservation Easement Program (ACEP) to ultimately better help agricultural producers and private landowners conserve wetlands, productive farmlands and at-risk grasslands.
Today’s farmers, ranchers, and private forest landowners are better prepared to maintain healthy and resilient soil due to the tireless efforts of Dr. Hugh Hammond Bennett, the Soil Conservation Service’s (SCS) first Chief and the Father of Soil Conservation, who was born on April 15, 1881.
Rhode Island NRCS State Conservationist, R. Phou Vongkhamdy, invites our NRCS conservation partners and clients to participate in a virtual State Technical Team meeting on Tuesday, April 18, 2023, from 9:00 to 11:00 a.m.
The next Federal Advisory Committee for Urban Agriculture and Innovative Production will be held April 18, 2023.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is asking for public input on two water quality conservation initiatives, the Mississippi River Basin Healthy Watersheds Initiative (MRBI) and the National Water Quality Initiative (NWQI).
USDA is seeking applications for projects that will improve outreach to underserved producers and underserved communities about conservation programs and services and opportunities for students to pursue careers in agriculture, natural resources and related sciences.
Rhode Island Women in Agriculture invites farmers and agriculture professionals across Rhode Island and greater New England to join us for the 2023 Rhode Island Women in Agriculture Conference to be held Tuesday, March 7, 2023, at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Warwick, Rhode Island.
NRCS in Rhode Island is now accepting additional applications for ACEP Wetlands Reserve Easements (WRE) through the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA). Applications that meet eligibility and ranking criteria in targeted areas that are received by March 17, 2023, will be considered for FY2023 funding.
Under the Biden-Harris administration, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) continued its conservation work across the country amid an ongoing pandemic and numerous natural disasters,
WASHINGTON, Feb. 2, 2023 – The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is investing more than $9.4 million in 45 cooperative agreements that support innovative, scalable waste management plans to reduce and divert food waste from landfills.
