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Wonder Women of Agriculture

March 27, 2018 Lakisha Aller, Assistant Chief, AMS Livestock, Poultry, and Grain Market News

Each day, USDA employees wake up ready to serve the industry we love – agriculture. As we help farmers, ranchers and foresters move agriculture forward, we remember and recognize the achievements of those who brought us to where we are today. You might think of George Washington Carver or Eli...

Initiatives

High Tunnels Protect Crops through Sleet and Snow

March 26, 2018 Candace Chambers, NRCS Public Affairs Student Intern

When Cindy Ayers-Elliott, Ph.D., left her career as a CEO and investment banker to become a Mississippi farmer, the last challenge she expected was freezing cold weather – especially snow and freezing temperatures.

Conservation

Officials View Producer Efforts to Improve Quality of Chesapeake Bay

March 22, 2018 Skip Hyberg, Senior Economist, USDA Farm Service Agency

“As of 2015, an estimated 18,091,710 people lived in the Chesapeake Bay watershed, up from 17,986,898 in 2014. Experts predict the watershed’s population will surpass 20 million by 2030 and reach 21.4 million by 2040. Each of the 18.1 million people that live in the region affects the Bay: consuming...

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Managing for Soil Health across 20,000 Acres

March 22, 2018 Rebecca Fletcher, Public Affairs Specialist, Indiana NRCS

During National Ag Week, we pause to celebrate the many farmers, ranchers and foresters working hard to grow the food, fuel and fiber that sustain each and every one of us. Mark Anson is one such farmer. Meet Anson, and learn how he’s used soil health practices such as no-till and cover crops to...

Conservation

Farm Community Effort Leads to Improved Drinking Water for Thousands

March 16, 2018 Amelia Dorch and Chad Douglas, NRCS

All communities depend on clean water and that supply of clean water depends on the actions of members in the community and outside of it. The small city of Kutztown lies within the Saucony Creek watershed in Berks County, Pennsylvania. The watershed is mostly agricultural, dotted with small family...

Conservation

Disaster Recovery: USDA Answering the Call

March 13, 2018 Jonathon Groveman, Public Affairs Specialist, California NRCS

In early December, I gathered with a group of neighbors in a Puerto Rican community to watch work begin on a USDA project to protect a nearby bridge. Minute-by-minute, the sound of rumbling equipment grew louder as the excavators emerged from behind houses, rolled along the debris-covered horizon...

Conservation

The Dollars and Cents of Soil Health: A Farmer’s Perspective

March 12, 2018 Elizabeth Creech, Natural Resources Conservation Service

Last year, the United States lost 2 million acres of land in active crop production. As the global population grows towards a projected 9.8 billion people by 2050, so too does demand for the food, fuel and fiber grown in America. The result? American farmers are looking for sustainable ways to...

Conservation

Conservation-Minded Purchasing: How Clothing Purchases Help Get Conservation on the Ground

February 26, 2018 Chad Douglas, Acting Internal/External Communications Team, NRCS

What if, before you purchased a hat or sweater, you knew the wool used to make it came from sheep raised on a ranch managed to improve soil health and increase soil carbon?

Conservation

70 Years in the Last Frontier

February 16, 2018 Molly Voeller and Brad Fisher, Natural Resources Conservation Service

From protecting people and their communities to growing food in high tunnels to restoring streams for salmon to protecting precious soils, the USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) has been investing in Alaska’s working lands for 70 years. The NRCS’s commitment to agriculture in...

Conservation

Good Forest Management Yields Wildlife Oasis

February 08, 2018 Justin Fritscher, Natural Resources Conservation Service

For Mike and Laura Jackson, many mornings begin with hot tea and birds. This particular morning, they spotted a mourning dove, a pileated woodpecker and many others. And the retired science teachers in Bedford County, Pennsylvania jot down the types and numbers of birds they see each day.

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