Cory Booker Wants Ag to Be a (Much) Bigger Part of Democrats’ Infrastructure Push Apr 13, 2021 Sen. Cory Booker has reintroduced the Climate Stewardship Act. Photography by Miroslav Tomoski/Shutterstock
President Joe Biden’s $2-trillion infrastructure plan is, as it stands today, noticeably light on cash set aside specifically for American agriculture. That won’t be the case for long if Sen. Cory Booker and a pair of his like-minded Democratic colleagues have their way.
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand and Rep. Abigail Spanberger joined Booker on Monday in reintroducing his Climate Stewardship Act with the goal of adding it to the infrastructure package that is expected to dominate Congress’ attention for the next several months. Booker’s bill includes $88 billion over the next decade in new funding to entice American farmers and ranchers to adopt climate-friendly practices such as cover crops, rotati
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The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) has funding available to Nebraska’s farmers and ranchers to develop Conservation Activity Plans. These plans are developed to help identify and find solutions for specific natural resource concerns on a farming operation. Applications for this year’s funding are currently being accepted at local NRCS offices through June 18.
Conservation Activity Plans are specific to certain kinds of land use such as transitioning to organic operations, grazing land, forest land, or can also address a specific resource need such a managing nutrients or to address an air quality concern.
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GYPSUM HILLS RENEWED: Today, the range is recovering from the Anderson Creek fire of 2016, mostly because the fire burned hot enough to control invasive eastern red cedars that had plagued ranchers. But some holdout cedars remain and still need control. The Anderson Creek fire in 2016 taught ranchers lessons that they still follow today.
Spring in the Gypsum Hills of Kansas is a time of renewal and new life. But for ranchers who experienced the Anderson Creek fire over nine devastating days in March 2016, spring also brings back lessons from the past.
March 22 marked the five-year anniversary of the ignition of the Anderson Creek fire, which burned 620 square miles of rangeland in Comanche and Barber counties in Kansas and Woods County, Okla. The wildfire burned incredibly hot and fast due to high wind and the highly flammable eastern red cedars that smothered the grasslands.
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