New federal initiative provides farmers funding for soil health practices and conservation through streamlined application ...

Sustainable inputs and conservation practices improve soil health. (Natural Resources Conservation Service photo) Editor’s note: This is the fourth installment of a five-part series, “Getting Grounded ...

The USDA-NRCS has created the Web Soil Survey (WSS) as a clearance house for soil survey data from the Soil Survey Geographic Database (SSURGO). Currently, there are data available for almost all ...

Walk through Iowa today and you'll see endless cornfields stretching to the horizon. What you won't see is what's ...

A 90th anniversary celebration of USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Service on April 24 highlighted the agency's evolution and commitment to conservation. The celebration included remarks by USDA ...

One hundred years after the Dust Bowl blew away topsoil from nearly 200 million acres of American farmland, farmers and ranchers are slowly entering into a new relationship with the soils beneath ...

Terry Cosby, chief of USDA's Natural Resources Conservation Service, looks on as Farm Service Agency Administrator Zach Ducheneaux answers a question at a House Agriculture subcommittee hearing. The ...

Conservation agriculture is an important part of the work of farmers to build more resilient community food systems, now and ...