Practical Conservation

Different takes from different states…

Judge issues restraining order for CRP program - Hays Daily News – Hays,KS,USA

Judge limits acres opened by USDA for cattle feeding - Salt Lake Tribune – United States

R-CALF: Judge Partially Halts Critical Feed Use Of CRP Land - CattleNetwork.com – Overland Park,KS,USA

Court allows for minimal grazing on CRP land - Feedstuffs – Minnetonka,MN,USA

Judge: Grazing OK, with limits - Palladium-Item – Richmond,IN,USA

Judge OKs emergency grazing program - Bellingham Herald – Bellingham,WA,USA

USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service has catalouged (and linked!) a myriad of resources for managing pollinators in agricultural landscapes.  Includes job sheets and fact sheets..many are state specific.

USDA has a new tool where you can map online (and download the raw data) county level data for Farm Program acreage including: program acres (production flexibility contract acres under the 1996 Farm Act, by commodity; base acres designated under the 2002 Farm Act, by commodity; and base acres updated to 1998-2001 plantings under the 2002 Farm Act, by commodity) and planted acreage from USDA’s National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS).

USDA Releases CRP for Grazing in Flood Regions — yes?

Grazing for Critical Feed Use due to high feed prices — not so fast!

US Judge Allows Haying and Grazing… — okay, now you can, but only if……

“At the American dinner table, about one bite in three depends on bees. “  A Philadelphia Enquirer article about how native bees may save agriculture.