CHAMPAIGN — Across Illinois and around the country, farmers, ranchers and forest landowners are working with USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Service to implement conservation practices across ...

Iowa NRCS Area Resource Soil Scientist Jason Steele uses his farming experience to train NRCS staff and build stronger relationships with farmers Soil scientist – to many people – may sound like a ...

A 90th anniversary celebration of USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Service on April 24 highlighted the agency's evolution and commitment to conservation. The celebration included remarks by USDA ...

A network of farmers who have benefited from Agriculture Department conservation programs and are organized by Invest in Our Land held a reception on Capitol Hill Wednesday evening to thank members of ...

Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) Soil Conservationists look over a design at the Carroll County Maryland Field Service Center in Westminster, Maryland, Feb. 6, 2020 (USDA/FPAC photo by ...

POCATELLO, Idaho — As a Natural Resources Conservation Service district conservationist in potato and sugar beet country, Nate Matlack deals with some of the nation’s most depleted soils. That’s one ...

Sustainable inputs and conservation practices improve soil health. (Natural Resources Conservation Service photo) Editor’s note: This is the fourth installment of a five-part series, “Getting Grounded ...

ST. PAUL - In 1935, steep slopes in southeast Minnesota were clear cut, dust storms were carrying soil from the nation's midsection to Washington, D.C., and Hugh Hammond Bennett was campaigning for ...

The Dust Bowl led to the creation of what is now called the Natural Resources Conservation Service. Just as it celebrates a major milestone, the agency is dealing with job losses, massive proposed ...

On April 14, 1935, one of the worst storms of the Dust Bowl rolled over the landscape. Black Sunday covered an area about 800 miles long and about 300-500 miles wide, including Hugoton, Kansas, shown ...