Iowa farmers and landowners invested more than $75 million in conservation practices last year in partnership with the U.S.

USDA's Natural Resources Conservation Service has opened the first round of staff positions to implement $19.5 billion in Inflation Reduction Act funding. The first set of entry-level soil ...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) established a national Jan. 15, 2026, ...

MANKATO, Minn. — United States Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack picked Minnesota to announce the next round of historic USDA investments. Vilsack announced on Wednesday that USDA is investing $1.5 ...

I want to address several misconceptions expressed in the recent Agweek article on the farm program biologists working in U.S. Department of Agriculture Natural Resources Conservation Service offices ...

The Trump administration’s mass firing of probationary federal employees has swept out workers across USDA, including loan analysts in Farm Service Agency field offices, ag scientists, and about 1,200 ...

The trillion-dollar budget bill pushed by the Biden administration would pour billions of dollars into the Agriculture Department’s conservation programs at a time when the agency’s field staff is ...

None of these facts nor any of their impacts on American farmers and ranchers are "expected to deter the Trump administration as it reshapes," said USDA in the report.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) established a national Jan. 15, 2026, batching deadline for the first funding round of key conservation programs.