Publications & Fact Sheets

Documents on this page are subject to change.  For complete details about NRCS programs and assistance, please contact your local NRCS Nevada field office.

For hard copies of Nevada NRCS publications, please contact Heather Emmons, Public Affairs Officer, at (775) 857-8500 x 105.

The following documents require Acrobat Reader.

2008 Farm Bill

• 2008 Farm Bill Programs  - Conservation practices and programs for your land (2009; PDF; 207KB)

• Beginning and Limited Resource Farmers/Ranchers (PDF: 465KB)

• Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations Fact Sheet (PDF)

• Definitions of Historically Underserved Agricultural Producers (PDF; 409KB)

  • Socially Disadvantaged Agricultural Producers (half page) PDF; 347KB)

  • In Spanish / en Español (DOCX; 259KB)

• Definitions of Terms in the 2008 Farm Bill (Oct. 2009) (PDF; 440KB)

• Energy Fact Sheet - Nevada  (PDF; 247 KB)

• EQIP Organic 2011 Fact Sheet (PDF; 572KB)

• Farm and Ranch Lands Protection Program (Nov. 2009; PDF; 366KB)

• Farm Bill Sign-up Checklist -- What You Need to Know Before You Sign Up for EQIP. AMA, WHIP or CSP (NV-PGM-9-1) (PDF; 296KB)

• High Tunnel Fact Sheet (rev Nov. 2, 2010) (PDF; 1.7MB)

• How Farm Bill Programs Work (Nov. 2009) PDF; 432KB)

• Local Work Groups Fact Sheet Overview (Oct. 2006) (PDF)

• Nevada State Technical Committee Fact Sheet (Aug. 2006) (PDF)

• Private - Public Cooperative Grazing Lands Initiative (Nov 2009) (PDF; 438KB)

• Wildlife Habitat Incentives Program (Nov. 2009) (PDF; 413KB)

Conservation Assistance

• Integrated Pest Management Fact Sheet, July 2011 (PDF: 388KB)

• Herbaceous Weed Control Fact Sheet, July 2011 (PDF; 887KB)

• Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations (Fact Sheet) (PDF; 284KB)

• Native Uses of Native Plants (PDF; 4.23MB) 

Tribal Conservation Assistance

• Native American Assistance Directory, NRCS Nevada, November 2013 (PDF; 393KB)

• Native American Conservation Newsletter, Nov. 2011 (PDF; 844KB)

• Working Together to Conserve and Protect Tribal Lands in Nevada, Nov. 2008 (PDF; 904KB)

• Native Uses of Native Plants (PDF; 4.23MB)

Language Translated Publications

• English-Spanish Conservation Glossary (developed by NRCS Colorado; PDF; 138 KB)

• Agricultor (Granjero) o Ranchero principiante/Personas socialmente en desventaja —

• Definitions of Beginning and Socially Disadvantaged Farmers/Rancher in Spanish / en Español (DOCX; 259KB)

Nevada NRCS

• 2017 Hoop House Fact Sheet (PDF; 159KB)

• Overview of the NRCS in Nevada (PPT; 8KB)

• 2012 Nevada NRCS Accomplishments Report (PDF; 2.9MB)

• Mojave Special Projects Office 2012 Accomplishments Report (PDF; 1.1MB)

• NRCS Nevada Office Directory (Fact Sheet; updated Nov. 2013) (PDF; 262KB)

• Natural Resources Conservation Service (National Fact Sheet; Feb. 2006) (PDF)

• Nevada NRCS Accomplishments Report 2011 (PDF; 1.5MB)

• Nevada NRCS Accomplishments Report 2010 (PDF; 1MB)

• Nevada NRCS Accomplishments Report 2009 (PDF; 1.1MB)

• Nevada NRCS Accomplishments Report 2008 (Jan. 2009) (PDF; 5MB)

• Nevada NRCS Accomplishments Report 2007 (Jan. 2008) (PDF)

History of Soil Survey in Nevada

Capturing the history of the soil survey program since the first Nevada soil survey was published in 1909 until 2000. (All are pdf documents.)

Part 1    Part 2    Part 3    Part 4    Part 5    Part 6    Part 7   Complete Version

National Farm Bill Fact Sheets
Visit this area of the USDA Farm Bill website to download Fact Sheets, Program Descriptions, and other printed information becoming readily available online.

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