Texas NRCS Announces Funding for Producers Participating in the Prairie View A&M University Sustainable Forestry and African American Land Retention Program
April 7, 2022, Temple, TX – The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) in Texas is offering financial assistance to African American forest landowners in east Texas to implement conservation practices that can help increase the land’s value and improve its forest and wildlife habitats.
Texas NRCS Announces Funding Assistance For Longleaf Pine Restoration Efforts
Temple, TX, March 16, 2022 – The USDA-Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) in Texas is accepting applications for the Longleaf Pine Incentive Program (LLPI) as part of the Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP). This effort is to help sustain, enhance, and restore longleaf pine forests on agricultural land, nonindustrial private forest and Tribal land.
USDA-NRCS Texas Announces Deadline for Conservation Stewardship Program Applications
Temple, TX, January 26, 2022 – While the Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) continuously accepts applications for enrollment into the Conservation Stewardship Program (CSP) throughout the year, interested applicants must submit their applications to their local NRCS Field Office by February 28, 2022 for the 2022-1 CSP Classic sign up. Any applications received after February 28, 2022 will be considered for future CSP application sign ups.
USDA-NRCS Offers New EQIP Conservation Incentive Contracts to Support Climate-Smart Agriculture in 2022
Temple, TX, Jan. 21, 2022 – The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) in Texas is announcing first-round funding signup for Conservation Incentive Contracts (CIC), a new option available through the Environmental Quality Incentive Program (EQIP).
Texas Artic Conditions Leave Losses, Damage in its Wake
By: Tucker Wilson March 15 – Texas’ small producers felt the detrimental extent of February’s North American winter storm, unofficially referred to as Uri, with wide-reaching effects on everything from crops to cattle and foliage, according to preliminary data. Small-scale horticulture producers lost gardens, crops, citrus trees, and the freeze also damaged irrigation systems. Prairie View A&M University’s Cooperative Extension Program Agriculture and Natural Resource Program Leader Clarence Bunch, Ph.D., said small limited resource ...
Relief bill is most significant legislation for Black farmers since Civil Rights Act, experts say
A little-known element of President Biden’s massive stimulus relief package would pay billions of dollars to disadvantaged farmers — benefiting Black farmers in a way that some experts say no legislation has since the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Of the $10.4 billion in the American Rescue Plan that will support agriculture, approximately half would go to disadvantaged farmers, according to estimates from the Farm Bureau, an industry organization. About a quarter of disadvantaged farmers ...