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Farmers and landowners enrolling acres in the U.S Department of Agriculture’s Conservation Reserve Program have a new practice available to them. Areas...
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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...
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Like all business owners, farmers want to get paid for their work. Sometimes, that work creates problems for the environment, so regulators are advancing…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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,…
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The US Senate passed a new five year farm bill last week and the house may take it up as early as this week.The Prairie Rivers Network, an Illinois…