NRCS Announces National Water Quality Initiative Conservation in Minnesota

State Conservationist Don Baloun announced the launch of a new National Water Quality Initiative committed to improving three impaired waterways in Minnesota. USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) will manage the initiative by making funds available to farmers, ranchers and forest landowners in the selected watersheds.

The Soil Survey Update Process With Focus on MLRA 103

 

For over a century, the National Cooperative Soil Survey program conducted soil surveys with a county-by-county process and application of soil survey data and maps was primarily at a local level for planning management.

A conservation plan is a written record of your management decisions and the conservation practices and systems you plan to use and maintain on your farm. Carrying out your conservation plan will achieve the goals of protecting the environment on and off your farm, as well as meeting your individual management objectives.
 

United States Department of Agriculture turns 150 years

In 2012, USDA will commemorate and celebrate the 150th anniversary of our founding in 1862, when President Abraham Lincoln signed into law an act of Congress establishing the United States Department of Agriculture