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News about Steward Link, NRCS, and other agricultural related topics.
STEWARD LINK Teams Up With Taranis
STEWARD LINK is excited to announce that it has joined forces with Taranis and their retailers to expand its services to their growers. Taranis provides growers and ag advisors an ever-evolving technology using AI-powered crop intelligence and sustainability solutions...
Inflation Reduction Act Funding for Climate-Smart Agriculture
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...
National Association of Conservation Districts
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.
USDA Invests $28 Million in New Projects to Help Restore Lost Wetland Functions, Benefits on Agricultural Landscapes
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...
USDA Offers Conservation Stewardship Program Participants Renewal Options for Contracts Set to Close
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...
CARBON CAPTURING BUZZ TURNS INTO STACKED PAYMENTS FOR FARMERS. FARMERS ARE GETTING PAID FOR CAPTURING CARBON, IMPROVING WATER QUALITY, AND MORE.
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...
Biden’s vow to expand Conservation Stewardship Program is not a plan for involuntary agricultural collectivization
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...
USDA to Open Signup for the Conservation Reserve Program and CRP Grasslands in Early 2021
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) today announced the signup periods for the Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) and the CRP Grasslands in 2021. Signup for general CRP will be open from Jan. 4, 2021, to Feb. 12, 2021, and signup for CRP Grasslands runs from...
Updated Conservation Practice Standards
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) has completed and published updates to its set of National Conservation Practice Standards, which include 58 standards that have been updated or revised since August. The 2018...
3 BIG THINGS TODAY, OCTOBER 5, 2020
1. WHEAT FUTURES HIGHER OVERNIGHT ON ADVERSE GLOBAL WEATHER Wheat futures were higher in overnight trading amid dry weather in several global growing areas. Dry weather is expected in much of the U.S. southern Plains for at least the next week or two, according to the...