Items Tagged with 'Regional Conservation Partnership Program'

USDA's Natural Resources Conservation Service is soliciting comments on its Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation conservation practice standards. 

Ag Secretary Tom Vilsack is going after Donald Trump in a podcast aimed at rural residents, specifically pointing to Trump’s plan to impose across-the-board tariffs.

USDA is awarding $1.5 billion for 92 Regional Conservation Partnership Program projects across the country, including efforts to reduce greenhouse gases and improve water quality from agricultural operations.

Republicans on the House Agriculture Committee are proposing to raise Price Loss Coverage reference prices by 10% to 20% depending on the commodity, while also providing increased income protection to growers under the Agriculture Risk Coverage program and crop insurance, according to a section-by-section summary released Friday.

The Agriculture Department is accepting proposals for Regional Conservation Partnership Program projects as it looks to dole out $1.5 billion in funding for the program this fiscal year, Secretary Tom Vilsack said Wednesday.

President Joe Biden and cabinet members, including top USDA officials, start a two-week rural America tour Wednesday to “barnstorm the country" and highlight $5 billion in rural infrastructure and conservation investments.

In this opinion piece, Harry Huntley at the Environmental Policy Innovation Center discusses the needed changes to the Regional Conservation Partnership Program and funding the Inflation Reduction Act in the farm bill.

The Agriculture Department will be distributing $500 million this fiscal year through the Regional Conservation Partnership Program, which allows the agency to share costs for regional conservation projects with private entities and state governments.