The USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) partnered with Holt County this week on the emergency repair of a levee that was in danger of failing and flooding the town of Fortesque.

Jason Erfling looks out over the hills that were part of the original 280 acres that his mother’s family purchased for $3,000 in 1864 from a Revolutionary War soldier and he can still envision the toll that five previous generations of farming took on the land.

Sixty years after the first of 1,182 flood-prevention structures were built in Missouri with federal financial and technical assistance, landowners who have witnessed the before-and-after effects of heavy rain are still praising the benefits of the watershed projects.

Forgive visitors to David and Lou Ellen Honeycutt’s homestead at Monett if they wonder what all the buzz is about.

The USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) announced November 16 as the cut-off date to apply for Fiscal Year 2019 funds through the Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP).