Conservation

Hay’s in the field and a storm is brewing: Another year without a new Farm Bill?

You can’t make hay unless the sun is shining. If the Farm Bill is hay, and the sunshine is time left in Congress’s schedule, then the sunshine is waning for a new Farm Bill to be passed before the current bill’s Sept. 30 expiration date.

[Watch] Finding the Funding: Federal conservation and crop insurance policy takeaways in a Farm Bill year

Watch the recording of our May 13, 2024 webinar, Finding the Funding: Federal conservation and crop insurance policy takeaways in a Farm Bill year. 

Environmental Quality Incentives Program funds expensive industrial agriculture practices, turns aspiring conservationists away

MINNEAPOLIS—A new report from the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP) finds that an outsized share of the funding for the conservation program Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP) financed expensive practices with little or no conservation benefits, while two-thirds of farmer applicants were rejected from the program

Costly versus cost-effective

This report takes a close look at the Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP), a farmer-focused conservation cost-share program. In the report, we examine the agricultural practices that EQIP helps farmers finance, how much funding went toward these practices in Fiscal Year 2023, including additional funding through the Inflation Reduction Act.

NSAC Comments on the Fiscal Year 25 CSAF List

The following comment was sent to Deputy Chief, Science and Technology Noller Herbert and National Climate Coordinator Dana Ashford-Kornburger of the Natural Resources Conservation Service of the United States Department of Agriculture on March 15, 2024.  Deputy Chief Herbert and Coordinator Ashford-Kornburger,

First steps toward an agroecological transition in U.S. agricultural policy

This article is part of a series highlighting work around the world to build agroecological practices, science and movements. Agroecology has emerged as a set of practices based on principles that guide how to produce food sustainably, as well as how to manage the social relationships that govern food production, p

Conservation

Hay’s in the field and a storm is brewing: Another year without a new Farm Bill?

[Watch] Finding the Funding: Federal conservation and crop insurance policy takeaways in a Farm Bill year

Environmental Quality Incentives Program funds expensive industrial agriculture practices, turns aspiring conservationists away

Costly versus cost-effective

NSAC Comments on the Fiscal Year 25 CSAF List

First steps toward an agroecological transition in U.S. agricultural policy

IRA expanded access to leading conservation programs, demand still not met

Opening the door for more conservation

[Watch] What’s next for the Farm Bill?

What is the Conservation Title of the Farm Bill?