Conservation Clip List for Friday, January 5th, 2024
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Building upon the foundation of innovative conservation practices, Knox-Lincoln SWCD and Waldo County SWCD in Maine introduced a Conservation Landscape Certification Program designed to empower landowners in being the best land stewards possible.
USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) is using emergency funding to respond to the threats associated with growing outbreaks of exotic fruit flies and New World screwworm. U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack approved the transfer of $213.3 million from the Commodity Credit Corporation to APHIS to directly support emergency response efforts domestically and internationally to protect fruit, vegetable and livestock industries and producers.
Mitigation efforts are crucial to prevent widespread devastation to the ecosystem and wildlife. Here are the five invasive species that can bring devastating threats to wildlife habitats and ecosystems.
More flowers are evolving to self-pollinate as the insects that carry their pollen become rarer. Eventually, they “learned” to reproduce without them, which could make them more susceptible to extinction. Moreover, it can endanger these insects further, exacerbating the destructive impacts of climate change.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced loan interest rates for January 2024, which are effective Jan. 2, 2024. USDA’s Farm Service Agency (FSA) loans provide important access to capital to help agricultural producers start or expand their farming operation, purchase equipment and storage structures or meet cash flow needs.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Regional Food Business Centers Program announced earlier this year it is creating 12 hubs across the country to build resilient food systems by helping small and mid-sized farm businesses scale operations. The program will distribute $400 million in funds from 2021’s American Rescue Plan over five years, and the centers will serve 11 different geographical regions around the US and its territories, as well as tribal lands.
Research from the University of Nebraska–Lincoln shows that that seed source—the fully grown redcedars bursting with tiny cones at the ends of their evergreen branches—can propagate a wave of cedar seedlings that spread out a couple hundred yards away from the parent tree. Two generations after her grandparents planted them, those redcedars are spreading out from the homestead and windbreaks, creating an ungovernable front of woodland.
The tribe of the village of Holy Cross, near the Yukon River, has won a $1.2 million dollar federal grant to organize a multi-tribe conservation district across a wide swath of Alaska, from the Bering Sea to the Central Interior. The proposal goes by a long name: The First Indigenous Sovereign Habitat Tribal Conservation District – Mountains to Sea – Alaska.
As a champion of conservation causes in Powhatan County, Terry Adcock took the ultimate step in protecting her own property, Oakdale Farm and Equestrian Center, with a conservation easement co-held by Capital Region Land Conservancy (CRLC) and the Monacan Soil & Water Conservation District (MSCWD).
That’s why Ashland Soil and Water Conservation District (SWCD) and Ashland County’s Farm Service Agency (FSA) are teaming up to host a farmer breakfast to share the opportunities, ins, and outs of conservation project and program funding to install practices like waterways on Ashland County farms.
The Delaware Soil and Water Conservation District (SWCD) presented their 2023 conservation awards in December. The awards recognize landowners and operators in Delaware County that have taken outstanding action to conserve natural resources.
Scott Mickey encourages South Carolina corn and soybean farmers to understand and take advantage of their price objectives as they move along in the new crop year ahead. In short, Mickey sees a “tough” year ahead for both corn and soybean prices. Prices are projected down in 2024 for both commodities.
The Mecosta Conservation District was awarded a grant from the 2023 Ice Mountain Environmental Stewardship Fund at Fremont Area Community Foundation to support the organization’s recycling program, according to a news release from the Stewardship Fund organization.
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