The Key O Ranch, operated by the Keogh family, has been working with NRCS for decades to improve their rangeland health through grazing management to produce healthy cattle, clean water, and wildlife habitat.

The J Bar L Ranch manager, Stephen Becklund, has transitioned several old alfalfa fields to perennial pastures that provide good cattle forage and opportunities for intensive rotation grazing.

The Hayes family has worked with the Five Valleys Land Trust, NRCS, and other partners to complete a conservation easement on the family's historic Hayes Ranch in Montana's Potomac Valley.

USDA will make up to $50 million available to help create or expand state government and tribal programs that encourage landowners and land managers to allow public access to their land for hunting, fishing and other wildlife-dependent recreation.

Meet ranchers who are shifting the management paradigm and discovering the benefits healthy soil has for their forage, animals, and community.