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5 Steps to Ensure Conservation Compliance

April 17, 2015 | Posted in Soil Health

To be eligible to receive many USDA benefits, including loans and federal crop insurance premium subsidies, growers must comply with requirements for highly erodible lands and wetlands.

Report Puts Conservation Compliance Link To Crop Insurance Back In Discussion

March 3, 2013

Source: American Farmland Trust

As Congress reauthorizes the farm bill, it is critical that the conservation gains that have made over the last 25 years be maintained by reattaching the crop insurance premium assistance to conservation compliance.

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Should Federal Crop Insurance Eligibility by Tied to Conservation Compliance?

By John Dobberstein posted on November 16, 2012 | Posted in Crop Protection

From November 16th, 2012 - December 15th, 2012, we asked No-Till Farmer readers: "Should eligibility for federal crop insurance be tied to conservation compliance?"

Vilsack: Linking Conservation Compliance To Federal Crop Insurance Not Likely

October 25, 2012 | Posted in Crop Protection

Source: Des Moines Register

U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack told the Des Moines Register that a link between federal crop insurance and conservation compliance just isn't going to happen in any new farm bill to be debated after the November election.

Howard Buffett: Stronger Laws Would Foster More Ag Conservation

October 18, 2012 | Posted in Soil Health

Source: Des Moines Register

Farmer/philanthropist Howard Buffett said Tuesday that stronger government action is needed to encourage farmers into compliance with better fertilizer, tillage and other conservation and environmental practices.

Keep Yields From Cooling Off

Cover crops can offset the major causes of yield drag in fields making the transition to no-till and improve the soil biology of fields lacking crop and residue diversity

By Martha Ostendorf posted on May 1, 2010 | Posted in Cover Crops, Nutrient Management, Soil Health

If you had to scavenge for food from Thanksgiving to Easter, chances are you wouldn’t be very productive and may not survive. The same is true of soil microbes.

Access Wet Field With Conservation Care

February 2, 2010 | Posted in Cover Crops

Farmers who still have crops in their fields are acting quick to access land and complete harvest operations. However, they must do so in a careful manner and be mindful of their conservation credo, according to Illinois State Conservationist for the Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) Bill Gradle.

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