Are you an agricultural landowner interested in protecting the integrity of your property? Consider safeguarding your land with a conservation easement through the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA ...

USDA's Natural Resources Conservation Service is updating its Agricultural Conservation Easement Program (ACEP) to expedite appraisals, land surveys and certification of eligible entities. The changes ...

In late 2025, the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), along with the United States Department of Health and Human ...

The Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry Committee plans a hearing this week with farm policy advocates. The Senate Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry Committee will take testimony this week on ...

No-till farming, such as used in this Illinois soybean field, shows promise in dry regions but causes lower yields in cold, moist areas like Northern Europe, a new study finds. No-till farming, a key ...

CDFA Secretary Karen Ross (left) presents to the Assembly Ag Committee. (photo: Asm. Robert Rivas' office) The California Department of Food and Agriculture Office of Environmental Farming and ...

MANKATO, Minn. — United States Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack picked Minnesota to announce the next round of historic USDA investments. Vilsack announced on Wednesday that USDA is investing $1.5 ...

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 ...

Mongabay is publishing a new edition of the book, “A Perfect Storm in the Amazon,” in short installments and in three languages: Spanish, English and Portuguese. In this section, Killeen focuses on ...

House and Senate Republicans are weighing whether to add Biden-era agriculture conservation programs to the GOP’s budget plans, according to three people familiar with the talks. One of the people, ...

Sugar cane farms on land set aside for Everglades restoration? Peanut farming on property that could have been a Florida state park? That’s what some environmental groups are worried about with a ...

Two agencies serving Belknap residents are receiving reduced funds from the county budget this year — the University of New ...