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A new report from the Environmental Working Group found targeting the U.S. Department of Agriculture's conservation funding to the Mississippi River region would have huge benefits to water quality and the climate.

In this opinion piece, Kim LaFleur with the National Association of Conservation Districts stresses that the farm bill must provide an effective conservation delivery system that relies on grassroots, locally led and voluntary initiatives.

Partisan tensions boiled over at a recent House Ag Appropriations hearing as republicans battled USDA over the...

A revolution is spreading across several states, where farmers and ranchers are adopting regenerative grazing methods.

Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, believes lawmakers will consider some curbs on the agriculture secretary’s authority to spend from USDA’s Commodity Credit Corp. account.

The top Republican on the Senate Agriculture Committee is setting a key condition for the next farm bill.

Congress ought to block the USDA’s access to the $30 billion reserve fund it used to launch a climate mitigation initiative, said the chair of a House Appropriations subcommittee on Thursday.

He chairman of the House Agriculture Appropriations Subcommittee on Thursday accused Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack of exploiting a “loophole” in USDA’s Commodity Credit Corp. account to fund $3 billion in climate-smart projects.

The USDA has put $3.1 billion into 141 projects expected to reach more than 60,000 farms and sequester as much carbon as removing 12 million gas-powered passenger vehicles from the road.

Dana Ashford-Kornburger, national climate coordinator for USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Service, said money from the Inflation Reduction Act will provide more funding for EQIP, CSP and more.