The St. Joseph County Soil and Water Conservation District is working to improve water quality by promoting and providing cost share for...

USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) today announced the availability of up to $260 million for partner proposals to...

INDIANAPOLIS (March 15, 2016) — In recognition of National Agriculture Day, Lt. Governor Eric Holcomb, who serves as Indiana’s Secretary...

Consider this: agriculture provides almost everything we eat, use and wear on a daily basis. While we know that food doesn't just...

Indiana’s State Conservationist Jane Hardisty today announced the establishment of the Natural Resources Conservation Service’s (NRCS)...

Indianapolis, IN, – Indiana State Conservationist Jane Hardisty announced today that the Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) is...

Indianapolis, IN, February 17, 2016 – Jane Hardisty, State Conservationist for Indiana’s USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service...

In November 2015 the St. Joseph River Basin Commission received an Indiana Department of Natural Resources Lake and River Enahancement...

As we come to the close of the 2015 International Year of the Soils, there is no time better to reflect on the importance of soils for...

State Conservationist Jane Hardisty announced today that Indiana’s USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) is making available...

Indianapolis, IN – The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has announced a new conservation effort to help farmers in Indiana and nine...

It’s estimated that about 5% of corn and soybean fields were lost causing about $300 million in crop value lost in 2015’s floods. Are...

Did your fields look like this with all the rain we received this year? The St. Joseph County Soil and Water Conservation District wants...

Indianapolis, IN, July 1, 2015 – Jane Hardisty, State Conservationist for Indiana’s USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS)...

Indianapolis, IN – June 26, 2015—Excessive rain and flooding has once again resulted in many fields that will go unplanted this year....

USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service June 2015 – Issue 5 Cover Crops to Improve Soil in Prevented Planting Fields A flooded field...

Specialty Crop Producers, Others Need to Certify Conservation Compliance by June 1 Indianapolis, IN, May 18, 2015 — Indiana’s Natural...

Will you do your part to save water – and our water sources? The water problems we face are complex and urgent. The only way to create a...

Jamie Scott participated in a roundtable on climate change and agriculture with USDA Secretary Vilsack in East Lansing, Michigan on April...

Eighty years ago, in April 1935, an ominous wall of blowing sand and dust swept across the Great Plains caused by years of overplanting,...