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An update to the 30-year-old Northwest Forest Plan is expected soon. The plan has a been a critical tool for managing 19 million acres of federal forest lands in Oregon, California and Washington. In December, the U.S. ...

A coalition of groups are criticizing plans for managing about 4 million acres of national forest lands in Idaho and Montana. Conservation groups in the region, as well as the Nez Perce Tribe, have submitted their objections to the Nez Perce-Clearwater National Forests Land Management Plan from the U.S. Forest Service. ...

As Congress prepares to start work on a new Farm Bill this week hunters and anglers say billions of dollars in investments in private-lands conservation are at stakeThe previous Farm

As Congress prepares to start work on a new Farm Bill this week, hunters and anglers say billions of dollars in investments in private-lands conservation are at stake. The previous Farm Bill expired last year but was given a one-year extension until this Sept. 30. ...

Conservation groups are watching Congress closely this week as work begins on the 2024 Farm Bill, which contains billions of dollars for private lands conservation programs

The House Ag Committee on Thursday will mark up the House farm bill. House Ag Chair GT Thompson told AgriTalk the panel will have the votes to clear the panel, but he has yet to receive any firm Democratic support.

In the 1930s in Nebraska, after an extended drought, great clouds of dust picked up and blew away the very topsoil that this state — and the entire Midwest —

We learned in the 1930s that a lack of utilizing soil conservation methods would play a large role in what started the Dust Bowl.

With a world that is rapidly changing, American farmers have faced unprecedented uncertainty.  Growing up surrounded by cornfields in Southern Indiana, I remember some years were harder than others for the farmers due to harsh weather conditions or other factors. Although I didn’t grow up on a farm myself, my community was fueled by agriculture,...

House Republicans lobbed tough questions at the secretary during his first Agriculture Committee appearance in almost a year.