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The passage of the 2018 Farm Bill has come and gone, but important details about program rules and how theyre implemented are still being hammered out. The Conservation Stewardship Program (CSP) is the largest working lands conservation program in the United States, supporting thousands of farmers to implement conservation practices on millions of acres.
The reports of drought across the United States continue to worsen. Just this week, USDA decreased its estimates of corn harvests in good to excellent conditions to 24 percent. Corn futures are hovering near $8 a bushel, and wheat futures have started to rise as well.
Two different factions of the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources are pooling their efforts in hopes of solving a common problem.
The state's forestry and wildlife department are working to save Wisconsin forests from being picked clean by a hungrier, and more adaptable, herd of deer.
HO CHI MINH CITY () - The world is overdue for an influenza pandemic and must act swiftly if it is to prevent one being triggered by the bird flu now endemic in parts of Asia where it has killed 46 people, U.N. officials said on Wednesday.
NEW YORK, New York, October 23, 2002 (ENS) - More than three quarters of the earth's landmass is now subject to human influence, according to a newly produced map of the world.
Gannett News Service | June 08, 2001 | George Anthan, The Des Moines Register
WASHINGTON -- Farmers, agribusiness, farm organizations and federal agencies use rosy food export projections developed by the Agriculture Department and by Iowa State and Missouri university analysts to make critical business and policy decisions.