by Ginger Chambley | Mar 14, 2023 | News
NEW ORLEANS, Feb. 13, 2023 – Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is making funding available for agricultural producers and forest landowners nationwide to participate in voluntary conservation programs and adopt...
by Ginger Chambley | Mar 14, 2023 | News
Steward Link staff members Nick Thomas and Will Primos recently attended the 2023 NACD annual meeting in New Orleans to meet with leaders in conservation and discuss upcoming program opportunities.
by Ginger Chambley | Mar 16, 2021 | News
Contact:[email protected] WASHINGTON, March 15, 2021 – The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is investing $28 million in six new Wetland Reserve Enhancement Partnership (WREP) projects and four ongoing ones, which enable conservation partners and producers to...
by Ginger Chambley | Mar 12, 2021 | News
WASHINGTON, March 12, 2021 – The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) today announced that it isaccepting Conservation Stewardship Program (CSP) renewal applications through March 31 for over 11,000contracts set to end this year. CSP is USDA’s largest working lands...
by Ginger Chambley | Mar 4, 2021 | News
Matt Ollendieck had been trying cover crops on part of his farm near LaPorte, City, Iowa, when he decided last year to sign up for a pilot project that sells the environmental benefits from his work. Matt Ollendieck is an Iowa farmer He put all of his acres, planted...
by sl_admin | Feb 2, 2021 | News
Shared tens of thousands of times on Facebook, posts claim that Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden “wants American farmers to put their farmland into ‘land banks’” whereby the federal government “would then tell farmers what ‘sustainable’ plants they could...
