USDA Announces $260 Million Available for Regional Conservation Partnership Program
USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) today announced the availability of up to $260 million for partner proposals to...
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Indiana State Department of Agriculture (ISDA)
Mar 15, 20163 min read
Lt. Governor joins ISDA in saluting Indiana on National Agriculture Day
INDIANAPOLIS (March 15, 2016) — In recognition of National Agriculture Day, Lt. Governor Eric Holcomb, who serves as Indiana’s Secretary...
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By Jane Hardisty
Mar 10, 20162 min read
Op-Ed: Indiana Farmers Are Stewards of a Healthy Planet!
Consider this: agriculture provides almost everything we eat, use and wear on a daily basis. While we know that food doesn't just...
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Indiana NRCS
Mar 7, 20162 min read
NRCS Seeks Proposals for Market-Based Wetland Protection Systems
Indiana’s State Conservationist Jane Hardisty today announced the establishment of the Natural Resources Conservation Service’s (NRCS)...
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Indiana NRCS
Mar 1, 20162 min read
NRCS Taking Applications for Conservation Stewardship Program to Help Improve Working Lands
Indianapolis, IN, – Indiana State Conservationist Jane Hardisty announced today that the Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) is...
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Indiana NRCS
Feb 18, 20162 min read
NRCS accepting applications to install conservation practices in northern Indiana
Indianapolis, IN, February 17, 2016 – Jane Hardisty, State Conservationist for Indiana’s USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service...
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St. Joseph River Basin Commission
Feb 5, 20161 min read
Cobus Creek Watershed Diagnostic Study
In November 2015 the St. Joseph River Basin Commission received an Indiana Department of Natural Resources Lake and River Enahancement...
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Indiana NRCS
Dec 3, 20153 min read
International Year of the Soils Helps Bring Focus to an Amazing Resource
As we come to the close of the 2015 International Year of the Soils, there is no time better to reflect on the importance of soils for...
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Indiana NRCS
Nov 24, 20152 min read
Indiana NRCS Announces $3.4 Million Available to Help Protect and Restore Sensitive Lands
State Conservationist Jane Hardisty announced today that Indiana’s USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) is making available...
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stjosephswcd
Nov 15, 20152 min read
NRCS Launches New Conservation Effort to Aid Monarch Butterflies
Indianapolis, IN – The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has announced a new conservation effort to help farmers in Indiana and nine...
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stjosephswcd
Jul 28, 20151 min read
Cover Crops in Prevented Planting
It’s estimated that about 5% of corn and soybean fields were lost causing about $300 million in crop value lost in 2015’s floods. Are...
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stjosephswcd
Jul 22, 20152 min read
Prevented Planting Cover Crop Cost Share Program 2015
Did your fields look like this with all the rain we received this year? The St. Joseph County Soil and Water Conservation District wants...
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stjosephswcd
Jul 1, 20152 min read
NRCS accepting applications to install conservation practices in northern Indiana
Indianapolis, IN, July 1, 2015 – Jane Hardisty, State Conservationist for Indiana’s USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS)...
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stjosephswcd
Jun 29, 20152 min read
Cover Crops Can Improve Soil in “Prevented Planting” Fields
Indianapolis, IN – June 26, 2015—Excessive rain and flooding has once again resulted in many fields that will go unplanted this year....
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Barry Fisher, NRCS State Soil Health Specialist
Jun 24, 20155 min read
Cover Crops to Improve Soil in Prevented Planting Fields
USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service June 2015 – Issue 5 Cover Crops to Improve Soil in Prevented Planting Fields A flooded field...
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stjosephswcd
May 20, 20152 min read
Important Crop Insurance Deadline Near for Indiana Producers
Specialty Crop Producers, Others Need to Certify Conservation Compliance by June 1 Indianapolis, IN, May 18, 2015 — Indiana’s Natural...
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From our friends at The Nature Conservancy
May 4, 20153 min read
Securing Water for People and Nature
Will you do your part to save water – and our water sources? The water problems we face are complex and urgent. The only way to create a...
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Kate Zook, USDA Office of the Chief Economist
Apr 27, 20152 min read
No-Till and Cover Crops from a Farmer’s Point of View
Jamie Scott participated in a roundtable on climate change and agriculture with USDA Secretary Vilsack in East Lansing, Michigan on April...
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Jane Hardisty, State Conservationist
Apr 20, 20153 min read
Earth Day 2015
Eighty years ago, in April 1935, an ominous wall of blowing sand and dust swept across the Great Plains caused by years of overplanting,...
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Indiana NRCS
Apr 8, 20152 min read
Agricultural Conservation Easement Program (ACEP)
Indianapolis, IN, April 7, 2015 – State Conservationist Jane Hardisty announced today that Indiana’s USDA Natural Resources Conservation...
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