Financial assistance available for producers to adopt conservation systems that improve soil health and water quality increased from $700M to $1B.

Only about 24% of EQIP applications and 37% of CSP applications resulted in awarded contracts in fiscal year 2025, a drop from 43% and 54% the year before, according to an Institute for Agriculture ...

Four major farm bill conservation programs would see a significant, permanent boost to their funding levels under the sweeping budget reconciliation bill that Republicans pushed through the House. The ...

David S. Doctorian, State Conservationist for the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS), announced the 2025 application deadline of Monday, September 9, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Oct. 1—TAHLEQUAH — The deadline to apply for climate-smart programs through the Environmental Quality Incentive Program is coming ...

Interested agricultural producers in Nevada should apply by Oct. 15 to be considered for fiscal year 2027 federal funding ...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) has established the Fiscal year (FY) 2025 application batching date for the first FY 2025 application evaluation ...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Natural Resources Conservation Service in North Dakota is extending the Fiscal Year 2027 ...

WASHINGTON (DTN) -- More than 56,000 farmers could be left without conservation assistance under the Senate's farm bill proposal, which would temporarily cut EQIP funding by nearly $1.9 billion over ...

Iowa landowners are used to hearing “no” when they apply for federal conservation funding. Fewer than one-quarter of Iowa applications for cost sharing through the Environmental Quality Incentives ...

NRCS Oklahoma Announces First FY2024 Application Batching Date for Conservation Stewardship Program (CSP), Agricultural Conservation Easement Program (ACEP) and Environmental Quality Incentives ...