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(Subscriber Only) NACD had pressed Congress for funding specifically for technical assistance, Peters said. Agriculture Department staff in county-level offices provide that help as farmers undertake measures like planting cover crops that hold the soil together during the offseason or when land isn’t in production.
Park Rapids Enterprise: Park Rapids kids plant pollinator prairie
By Robin D. Fish
11/01/21
Seventh graders from Century School joined personnel with the Hubbard County Soil and Water Conservation District on Friday, Oct. 29 to plant habitats for pollinators and wildlife.
“We are proud to work with numerous partners and provide funding for farmers to plant cover crops,” said Debbie Absher, director of agricultural programs at SCD. “Cover crops improve soil health and water quality because of their ability to scavenge excess nutrients in the soil and increase organic matter.”
If you can't take the classroom to the stream, bring the stream to the classroom. Such was the thinking of Chelsea Cooper, Manistee Conservation District conservation technician, when she brought a sample of local streams to Brethren High School and Onekama Consolidated Schools to teach students about watersheds.
Hoʻōla Farms on the Big Island has received a $750,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture to continue their vocational training services for veterans.
(Subscriber Only) Ranchers and conservationists, once unlikely allies, are teaming up to preserve grasslands, which act as a carbon dioxide sink that could support climate goals.
The Department of Conservation and Recreation on Thursday said a total of $7.5 million had been awarded to land trusts, local governments and state agencies to fund 30 conservation projects ranging from farmland, forests and historic sites to natural areas and parks.
Livestock grazing serves several purposes. It feeds the livestock, regenerates plant and soil health, and—when animals are grazed in orchards or woodlands—lessens wildfire severity by reducing fuel loads.
A three-year study conducted by the Arkansas Agricultural Experiment Station shows that cover crops can improve yields in soybean fields. The study also answers a lingering question about wheat-double-crop systems.
“I was interested in using native warm season grasses after learning about them through my work with NRCS. They really have a good ability to fit in a grazing system by addressing the summer slump."
“Carbon is really key for soils — soil health and fertility productivity,” Rice said.
By Nora G. Hertel
10/28/21
Now the Janskis are using more cover crops across their land. They've reduced their tillage. And they allow their cattle to graze on some of their fields, which provides benefits to the land through the animals' hooves, saliva and manure.
The Cattle Site: Grant beefs up grazing initiative that benefits farmers and environment
11/01/21
In 2015 a small team of Virginia Cooperative Extension agents, farmers and representatives from state and federal conservation agencies from Northern Piedmont and Northern Shenandoah Valley created the Graze 300 VA Initiative “to enable Virginia farmers to achieve 300 days of livestock grazing per year by facilitating better pasture management and environmental stewardship.”
The HSP Demonstration Projects aim to improve soil health, sequester carbon and reduce atmospheric greenhouse gases (GHGs) funding on-farm demonstration projects that collect data and/or showcase conservation management practices that mitigate GHG emissions and increase soil health, and creating a platform promoting widespread adoption of conservation management practices throughout the state.
Peninsula Pride Farms, the Calumet County Ag Stewardship Alliance and the Lafayette Ag Stewardship Alliance are offering cost-share funds to farmers who conduct trials of cover crops and planting green, open to members and non-members.
Associated Press: Hope after wildfire: Tiny sequoias could grow into giants
By Brian Melley
11/02/21
The bright green seedling that barely reached Perry’s knees is part of an unusual project to plant offspring from some of the largest and oldest trees on the planet to see if genes that allowed the parent to survive so long will protect new growth from the perils of climate change.
Planting cover crops could sequester 6.4 million metric tons of carbon dioxide in Minnesota, according to a January report from The Nature Conservancy. Reducing tillage practices and improved management of fertilizers and nutrients could reduce emissions by more than four million metric tons.
(Opinion) Restoring our forests to a more natural level of tree density does not mean clear-cutting and does not mean removing the largest trees. It does mean striving for and achieving forests which can withstand wildfire without massive damage to forests, wildlife, watersheds and communities.
By Dr. Sean W. Fleming
11/04/21
Our hope is that M4 will help farmers, ranchers, and foresters – our customers – better plan for their operations and continue to have the means to provide for people in the U.S. and around the world who depend on American agriculture.
By Jacqui Fatka
11/04/21
Specifically, the bill provides $28.29 billion in historic investments to conservation programs and support for farmers and producers. The bill would provide $5 billion for Soil Conservation Assistance for producers who establish cover crops for soil health.
B Kate Hill
11/01/21
Co-sponsored by the Cazenovia Lake Association (CLA) and the Water Resources Task Force of the United Climate Action Network (UCAN), the program will provide “hands-on participation in water resource protection, education of the community with a focus on land use impacts, and an opportunity to train the next generation of environmental leaders.”
A Clemson University researcher believes using on-farm carbon waste, as well as growing certain cover crops, may help provide less costly carbon sources and allow more growers to use ASD for their crops.
The Family Forest Carbon Program is open to forest owners with as little as 30 acres and as many as 2,400 acres. It can do this because, instead of tree-by-tree accounting, it calculates the carbon benefits of sustainable forestry practices that many small landowners agree to adopt.
Fire season has officially ended on all lands protected by the Oregon Department of Forestry, the state agency declared Saturday morning.
It can be hard to get bees to do their vital work in indoor farms or greenhouses. Instead, the plants may need a little robotic assistance to reproduce.
On Thursday, Agriculture Secretary Russell Redding reminded Pennsylvanians of the importance of vigilance against the Spotted Lanternfly.
For a successful garden next spring, don’t guess — soil test!
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