Sustainable inputs and conservation practices improve soil health. (Natural Resources Conservation Service photo) Some 69 million acres were enrolled in the Conservation Stewardship Program in fiscal ...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Ohio Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) is accepting applications from landowners interested in the Conservation Stewardship Program (CSP) to build on ...

PLEASANT GROVE, Minn. — Olmsted County Natural Resources Conservation Service district conservationist Dave Copeland rolled out details of the new Conservation Stewardship Program last week to an ...

David S. Doctorian, State Conservationist for the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS), announced the 2025 application deadline of Monday, September 9, ...

The Conservation Stewardship Program is a favorite with many producers because it allows them to receive payments for actively managing, maintaining and expanding conservation activities on acreage ...

A strip-tilled farm field, pictured Nov. 18, 2020, has been seeded with a cover crop in rural Linn County. Fewer than one-quarter of Iowa applications for federal cost sharing for farm conservation ...

The Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services announced today that the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Natural Resources Conservation Service is opening the Conservation Stewardship ...

The biggest farmland conservation program has shrunk dramatically since the last farm bill, with no sign Congress will change direction. A program created by the “father of modern conservation” to ...

HOT SPRINGS – The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Conservation Stewardship Program (CSP) is nothing new. CSP has been around since the 2008 Farm Bill authorized the program for 2009-2012, then ...

ALBANY, N.Y. — Gov. Kathy Hochul recently announced more than $3 million for 64 projects that will protect water quality, prevent farmland conversion, boost public access for outdoor recreation, and ...

Clay County is accepting nominations for its Forests and Farms Conservation Lands Program through the end of February. The program allows the county to partner with local landowners to protect ...

Judith Puncochar prunes a tree on her farm outside of Saint Paul, Nebraska. Most of Puncochar's farm is enrolled in the Conservation Reserve Program, a federal land conservation initiative that she ...