Congress instructed USDA to create the wetland mitigation banking program in the 2014 farm bill. Applicants may be awarded up to $1 million to develop, operate and manage the banks with technical ...

Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced that $328 million in funding is being invested to help landowners protect and restore key farmlands, grasslands and wetlands across the nation.

Conservationists to their core, Foster and his wife, Cindy, requested wetlands determinations from USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) on four quarters of family ground in 2000.

If you own or farm land and are considering drainage activities, it is your responsibility as a USDA program participant to comply with the Wetland Conservation Compliance provisions. Wetlands are ...

WASHINGTON, March 31, 2015 – One of USDA’s voluntary conservation programs for producers – the Agricultural Conservation Easement Program (ACEP) – will provide $332 million in financial ...

The USDA announced the availability of funding to restore, enhance, protect, and manage habitat for migratory birds and other wetland-dependent wildlife through the Wetlands Reserve Enhancement ...

The USDA has asked a federal judge to dismiss a lawsuit that alleges it helped finance wetland projects that disrupted a Washington irrigator’s water supply. TrendingSimplot must pay for cattle ...

This Delaware County land has nine acres designated as wetland. A lawsuit alleges the U.S. Department of Agriculture can't withhold benefits, including crop insurance, if a landowner plants in a ...

The Obama administration announced plans Thursday to spend $30 million to protect, restore and enhance wetlands on private and tribal agricultural lands in six states.

After the eight USDA-funded projects were completed between 2005 and 2013, however, the restored wetlands began absorbing water that previously inundated the creek, the complaint said.

Consider safeguarding your land with a conservation easement through the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) in Florida.