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Recent News: #U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA)

  • January 07, 2021

    Twenty years later, the restoration efforts on a New York farm help secure its future

    The Otsego County Soil and Water Conservation District goes virtual to tour impactful conservation practices

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  • September 01, 2020

    A key bee at Chesapeake orchards

    The mason bee is a productive pollinator for all types of native fruits

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  • December 30, 2019

    Increased budget will increase restoration

    Additional $12 million in Bay Program budget will be spread throughout the watershed

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  • May 23, 2019

    Recent agricultural census shows conservation practices are on the rise

    Farmers are increasingly using cover crops, no-till and reduced tillage

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  • May 29, 2014

    Reducing agricultural runoff creates clean water in Chesapeake Bay

    Scientists link on-farm best management practices with improvements in water quality.

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  • May 08, 2014

    Farm Bill changes landscape for conservation funding in Bay watershed

    The bill will bring farmers and watershed groups together.

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  • December 26, 2013

    Tracking conservation can credit farmers, ensure states meet water quality goals

    Bay Program partners work to streamline the conservation reporting process.

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  • November 25, 2013

    Antibiotics, hormones increasingly found in livestock and poultry manure

    Manure spills could pose threats to human health and the environment.

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  • August 24, 2012

    Bay groups receive $2.5 million to improve water quality trading infrastructure

    New programs encourage farmers to put pollution credits on the market.

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  • January 26, 2012

    Saving the Eastern Shore’s marshes from destructive, invasive nutria

    A team of scientists and trappers is working to eradicate nutria from the Chesapeake Bay by 2015.

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