Kansas Conservation Districts are getting the word out about natural resource conservation in a whole new way. In a podcast through Great Plains Regeneration and the High Plains Journal, host Jessica Gnad interviewed two of the state’s greatest conservation leaders: Rod Voorhees and Daryl Donohue.
California is having its driest year ever. In West Texas, no one alive has seen this little rain. The vast underground lake that feeds the Great Plains, which helps produce one sixth of the world’s grain, is shrinking.
(Opinion) Farmers and ranchers are taking steps toward a sustainable future by sequestering carbon using soil management techniques, capturing methane emitted by livestock, and more efficiently using fertilizers.
(Subscriber Only) The Senate Agriculture Committee holds a long-awaited hearing this week on a bill to mandate more negotiated trading in the cattle markets, and then the panel launches its preparation for the next farm bill with a field hearing Friday.
Like all types of agriculture, grazing on prairies has an environmental impact. Scientists, farmers, ranchers, and consumers are increasingly trying to balance food production and protecting the environment, so it is important to understand how one affects the other.
It’s a time to call attention to the importance of conserving our land and water. Tim Palmer is the past president of the National Association of Conservation Districts and a south-central Iowa farmer. He says conservation goes beyond agriculture and involves everyone.
Many farmers who apply for federal funding to assist in implementing voluntary conservation practices on their land – such as improving soil health or developing habitats for bees and other pollinators — are being rejected by their local USDA offices.
Conservationists say a more comprehensive approach will be necessary to save the butterfly, whose population has dropped nearly 90% in the last 20 years.
Washington, NC | Southeast Region
04/22/22
Beaufort Soil and Water Conservation District (BSWCD) in partnership with the National Association of Conservation Districts (NACD), is celebrating the 67th Annual Stewardship Week from April 24 – May 1, 2022.
By Walter Wuthmann | Boston, MA | Northeast Region
04/22/22
This herd is part of a study looking into different types of seaweeds' ability to reduce methane — a powerful greenhouse gas that cows release in a steady stream of burps.
By Dino Grandoni and Melina Mara | Oakland, CA | Pacific Region
04/22/22
After years of decline, nearly 250,000 monarch butterflies descended upon the Pacific Coast this winter. The more than 100-fold increase over the previous year’s total, according to the Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation, offers an encouraging sign for the growing community of monarch admirers working to save the iconic insect. It’s the highest tally since 2016.
Santa Fe, NM | Southwest Region
04/24/22
New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham has signed emergency declarations as 20 wildfires continued to burn Sunday in nearly half of the state’s drought-stricken 33 counties.
By Lisa Gross | California | Pacific Region
04/24/22
An analysis by Inside Climate News found many of the same chemicals in “produced” water from fracking and conventional drilling. “It doesn’t matter from a chemical perspective,” one scientist said.
By Steve Fullerton | Missoula, MT | Northern Plains Region
04/25/22
The proposed "Bitterroot Front Project" will stretch from McClain Creek on the north to Trapper Creek on the south end of the Bitterroot Valley - about 144,000 acres. The project would reduce wildfire threats, especially in the Wildland Urban Interface.
By Rebecca Falconer and Andrew Freedman | New Mexico | Southwest Region
04/25/22
New Mexico's governor signed an emergency declaration for 33 drought-affected counties over the weekend, as dozens of wildfires raged across several U.S. states in the Southwest and Midwest.
Tama, IA | North Central Region
04/25/22
Tama Soil & Water Conservation District, in partnership with the National Association of Conservation Districts, is celebrating the 67th Annual Stewardship Week from April 24 – May 1.
Franklin County, NC | Southeast Region
04/26/22
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack highlighted the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) investment of more than $39 million in six watershed infrastructure projects in North Carolina, building on other USDA infrastructure investments in the state.
Des Moines, IA | North Central Region
04/26/22
On Tuesday, Iowa Secretary of Agriculture Mike Naig announced funding from the state’s Water Quality Initiative will go to 17 urban water quality projects.
By Nathan Solis | Los Angeles, CA | Pacific Region
04/26/22
As worsening drought conditions in California and the West take a heavy economic toll on agriculture, state legislators are considering a plan to pay farmworkers $1,000 a month to help them cover the cost of necessities.
By Saphora Smith | New Mexico | Southwest Region
04/26/22
The head of horticulture at an organic farm in the New Mexico desert says he is adapting farming methods as the region becomes more arid driven in part by climate change.
By Chrystal Houston | York, NE | Northern Plains Region
04/26/22
The drought conditions across much of Nebraska, combined with sustained high winds, meant that erosion was inevitable on conventionally tilled fields where best management practices such as cover crops and diverse growing rotations are not in use.
By Katie Surma | Florida | Southeast Region
04/27/22
The “rights of nature” movement, gaining adherents across the country and globally, asserts that rivers, trees, mountains and ecosystems have legal rights, just like people and corporations.
By Judith Retana | Raleigh, NC | Southeast Region
04/27/22
A new center for sustainable agriculture is now open in Research Triangle Park. It aims to educate the public about where their food comes from.
By Spencer Chase | California | Pacific Region
04/27/22
(Subscribers Only) According to a release from the California Department of Food and Agriculture, Healthy Soils Program funding recipients will include academic institutions, non-profits and conservation districts among the seven projects.
By Conrad Swanson | Denver, CO | Southwest Region
04/27/22
The declaration qualifies farmers and ranchers for emergency loans to recover damages from the ongoing megadrought.
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