Many in agriculture hope conservation programs will be largely unaffected by the incoming second Trump administration given their popularity with farmers and with the fate of remaining Inflation ...

USDA is awarding $1.5 billion for 92 Regional Conservation Partnership Program projects across the country, including efforts to reduce greenhouse gases and improve water quality from agricultural ...

Enrollment rates for two U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) conservation programs spiked after the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) allocated billions of dollars to them, but agriculture experts warn ...

Farmer Barry Evans drops dusty soil from a cotton crop he shredded and planted over with wheat in Kress, Texas. Funding freezes threaten to halt the $11 billion dedicated to two land conservation ...

USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack visited Minnesota State University, Mankato on Wednesday to announce a $1.5 billion investment into the Regional Conservation Partnership Program.

The Mississippi River basin covers all or part of 31 states in the U.S, including Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin, pictured here. Targeting conservation funds to the Mississippi River watershed could have ...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture in April announced the termination of its $3 billion “climate smart” program, a grantmaking initiative that was supporting hundreds of millions of dollars in ...

Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced the availability of an historic $1.5 billion in fiscal year 2024 to invest in partner-driven conservation and climate solutions through the Regional ...

The trillion-dollar budget bill pushed by the Biden administration would pour billions of dollars into the Agriculture Department’s conservation programs at a time when the agency’s field staff is ...

Phillips 66 is Closing its LA Refinery this Month. Neighbors Still Don’t Know if the Company Will Pay for the Cleanup. Arizona Launches Investigation into Proposed Critical Mineral Mine’s Contaminated ...

CHICAGO/WASHINGTON DC (Reuters) -The U.S. Department of Agriculture has frozen some funding for farmers as it goes through a sweeping review, despite assurances from the Trump administration that ...

More money for climate-smart agriculture practices will mean more opportunity for farmers and ranchers to qualify for U.S. Department of Agriculture programs that have had more interest than funding.