Assistant to the Secretary for Rural Development Anne Hazlett announced that USDA is making resources available to help rural people and communities recover from the effects of California wildfires. “While the full extent of damage from the current wildfires is not yet known, USDA Rural Development is committed to supporting the recovery of impacted rural…
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USDA Issues Farm Safety Net and Conservation Payments
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Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue announced that over $9.6 billion in payments will be made, beginning this week, to producers through the Agriculture Risk Coverage (ARC), Price Loss Coverage (PLC) and Conservation Reserve (CRP) programs. The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) is issuing approximately $8 billion in payments under the ARC and PLC programs for…
USDA Offers Renewal Options for Expiring Conservation Stewardship Program Contracts
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Acting Deputy Agriculture Secretary Michael Young announced that a contract renewal sign-up is underway for the Conservation Stewardship Program (CSP), USDA’s largest working lands conservation program with more than 80 million acres enrolled. USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) made several updates to the popular program last fall. These changes help producers better evaluate conservation…
Identifying Trees in the Winter
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By: Patrick Troyer, Education Specialist So you are taking a stroll through the woods and you come across a tree but just cannot seem to identify it. All you see is a dormant tree with only the branches showing. The question now becomes, how can it be identified with no leaves or any other distinguishable…
