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Prevented Planting Cover Crop Cost Share Program 2015
Did your fields look like this with all the rain we received this year? The St. Joseph County Soil and Water Conservation District wants...
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stjosephswcd
- Jul 1, 2015
- 2 min
NRCS accepting applications to install conservation practices in northern Indiana
Indianapolis, IN, July 1, 2015 – Jane Hardisty, State Conservationist for Indiana’s USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS)...
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stjosephswcd
- Jun 29, 2015
- 2 min
Cover Crops Can Improve Soil in “Prevented Planting” Fields
Indianapolis, IN – June 26, 2015—Excessive rain and flooding has once again resulted in many fields that will go unplanted this year....
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Barry Fisher, NRCS State Soil Health Specialist
- Jun 24, 2015
- 5 min
Cover Crops to Improve Soil in Prevented Planting Fields
USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service June 2015 – Issue 5 Cover Crops to Improve Soil in Prevented Planting Fields A flooded field...
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stjosephswcd
- May 20, 2015
- 2 min
Important Crop Insurance Deadline Near for Indiana Producers
Specialty Crop Producers, Others Need to Certify Conservation Compliance by June 1 Indianapolis, IN, May 18, 2015 — Indiana’s Natural...
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From our friends at The Nature Conservancy
- May 4, 2015
- 3 min
Securing Water for People and Nature
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...
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Kate Zook, USDA Office of the Chief Economist
- Apr 27, 2015
- 2 min
No-Till and Cover Crops from a Farmer’s Point of View
Jamie Scott participated in a roundtable on climate change and agriculture with USDA Secretary Vilsack in East Lansing, Michigan on April...
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Jane Hardisty, State Conservationist
- Apr 20, 2015
- 3 min
Earth Day 2015
Eighty years ago, in April 1935, an ominous wall of blowing sand and dust swept across the Great Plains caused by years of overplanting,...
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Indiana NRCS
- Apr 8, 2015
- 2 min
Agricultural Conservation Easement Program (ACEP)
Indianapolis, IN, April 7, 2015 – State Conservationist Jane Hardisty announced today that Indiana’s USDA Natural Resources Conservation...
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stjosephswcd
- Apr 6, 2015
- 1 min
2015 International Year of Soils
Did you know that 2015 is the International Year of Soils? The 68th session of the United Nations General Assembly designated 2015 for...
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stjosephswcd
- Mar 30, 2015
- 1 min
Headwaters Yellow River Watershed Planning Project
In the fall of 2014 the Marshall County Soil and Water Conservation District (SWCD) received state and federal funds to produce a...
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