Conservation

A new report from the Environmental Working Group found targeting the U.S. Department of Agriculture's conservation funding to the Mississippi River region would have huge benefits to water quality and the climate.

Farmers and landowners enrolling acres in the U.S Department of Agriculture’s Conservation Reserve Program have a new practice available to them. Areas...

As grassland and prairies gave way to farmland in the Midwest, habitats for some native birds disappeared. There’s a relatively new program in central...

Like all business owners, farmers want to get paid for their work. Sometimes, that work creates problems for the environment, so regulators are advancing…

It’s getting so close now… Wednesday morning the U.S. House passed the Agriculture Act of 2014, the new farm bill. The Senate is expected to take a…

The farm bill expired at the end of September which means funding for conservation programs has dried up too, but that’s not true for not all conservation…

The partial shutdown of the Federal Government is hitting at the same time that the current farm bill expires. What does that expiration mean for farm…

The USDA"s Natural Resources Conservation Service is encouraging Iowa farmers to sign up for conservation programs for next year but as of now those…

A recent federal tax court ruling might affect the amount of farmland in Southeast Iowa that’s put into conservation programs.A U.S. Tax court has ruled…

The amount of farmland in conservation programs across Iowa as dropped in the past decade, but Southeast Iowa has actually seen an increase.State wide,…