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For nearly four decades, the federal government has protected environmentally sensitive farmland through a simple bargain with farmers known as “conservation compliance.” If they want to receive farm program benefits, growers can’t plow up wetlands, and they must take steps to protect highly erodible acreage.
The Natural Resources Conservation Service will have to come up with a new rule explaining how it plans to determine whether farmers have wetlands on their property, after a federal judge tossed a 2020 rule in response to a lawsuit from the National Wildlife Federation.
The Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals on Friday, May 12, 2023, ruled against Arlen Foster of Miner County, South Dakota, in his quest for a new review by the Natural Resources Conservation Service.
DAZEY, N.D. -- Jim and Pat Broten are living with a "mini-Devils Lake," a progressive, rising threat to everybody in Lake Township. They say they are grateful that the U.S. Department of Agriculture allowed a "temporary minimal effect" permit for...