Incorporating conservation practices can help farmers face looming agricultural challenges.

They share the decision-making process and the benefits they experienced from adopting these conservation practices. The Soil ...

When considering if soil conservation is worth the cost, think about what your time and soil is really worth. An economist shares research on what soil practices pay off.

The Vanishing Foundation of American Agriculture 6 billion tons of topsoil since farming began roughly a century and a half ...

Current protected areas only poorly cover the places most relevant for conserving soil ecological values. To assess global hotspots for preserving soil ecological values, an international team of ...

Panelists discussed farming techniques for moisture conservation during the water panel at Soil Health U 2024, held in January. Wes McCary, tech projects coordinator at the Kansas Water Office, ...

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

Advocates of conservation agriculture have long insisted that farmers who adopt use of practices such as cover cropping and no till or reduced till cultivation can improve the water-holding capacity ...

William “Bill” Richards, a soil conservation pioneer who served as chief of USDA’s Soil Conservation Service (now the Natural Resources Conservation Service) from 1990-1993 under President George H.W.

Nebraska's Natural Resources Districts (NRDs) have renewed their Memorandum of Agreement with the U.S. Department of ...

Gov. Kelly Armstrong on Thursday, Jan. 29, rolled out the Governor’s Legacy Soil Health and Habitat Program, a cooperative ...