From USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Service in Florida: Eighty years ago, on April 14, 1935, an ominous wall of blowing sand and dust swept across the Great Plains. This day is known in history as Black Sunday. During the 1930s, the Dust Bowl days were a period during which huge dust storms ravaged the Midwest because of years of overplanting, …
Florida NRCS Office in Santa Rosa County Holding Open House
Santa Rosa County, Florida farmers are being reminded an Open House will be held next Tuesday, April 14 from 4:00-6:00pm at the new USDA Service Center in Jay. Natural Resources Conservation Service District Conservationist Trent Mathews invites folks to join them to see the new office. Download Audio Sponsored ContentValley Helps Growers Get The Most Out Of Every AcreMarch 19, …
Alabama NRCS Promoting Soil Health Practices
Dr. Bill Puckett, state conservationist with USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Service in Alabama, encourages producers to implement more practices for better soil health. Download Audio Learn more about soil health practices on the Alabama NRCS website. Sponsored ContentValley Helps Growers Get The Most Out Of Every AcreMarch 19, 2026Florida Cattle Enhancement Board Builds Relationships Between Researchers and Cattle ProducersMarch 13, …
Florida Producers Invited to Apply for ACEP
USDA is making available $332 million in financial and technical assistance through the Agricultural Conservation Easement Program (ACEP). And USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Service in Florida will accept ACEP applications through May 15. Download Audio Sponsored ContentValley Helps Growers Get The Most Out Of Every AcreMarch 19, 2026Florida Cattle Enhancement Board Builds Relationships Between Researchers and Cattle ProducersMarch 13, 2026Florida …
Alabama NRCS Honoring Conservation Volunteers
3,200 volunteers worked well over 22,000 hours last year through the Earth Team Volunteer program in Alabama. And that’s why USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Service in Alabama will be celebrating National Volunteer Week April 12-18. Download Audio Learn more about the Earth Team Volunteer Program online on the Alabama NRCS website. Sponsored ContentValley Helps Growers Get The Most Out Of …
Longleaf Pine Savanna Helps Educate Farmers, Others on Value of Forest
From the U.S. Department of Agriculture: The Nature Conservancy’s Apalachicola Bluffs and Ravines Preserve, an hour west of Tallahassee, Florida, protects nearly 6,300 acres of restored sandhill habitat. Young longleaf pines stand in thick waves of golden wiregrass. Wild turkey, bobwhite quail, gopher tortoise and Florida pine snake once again populate what 25 years ago were rows of industrial timber …
ACEP Applications are Due May 15
USDA announced this week that the Natural Resources Conservation Service will accept Agricultural Conservation Easement Program applications through May 15. ACEP was designed to help productive farm and ranch lands remain in agriculture and to protect critical wetlands and grasslands. Download Audio Sponsored ContentValley Helps Growers Get The Most Out Of Every AcreMarch 19, 2026Florida Cattle Enhancement Board Builds Relationships …
Deadline Approaching to Renew Expiring CSP Contracts
USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Service reminds farmers, ranchers and forest landowners that you have until this coming Tuesday, March 31 to renew those expiring Conservation Stewardship Program contracts. Download Audio Sponsored ContentValley Helps Growers Get The Most Out Of Every AcreMarch 19, 2026Florida Cattle Enhancement Board Builds Relationships Between Researchers and Cattle ProducersMarch 13, 2026Florida Cattle Enhancement Board Helps to …
Southeast AgNet This Week: Peanut Referendum; Water Survey Results
Today’s issue of Southeast AgNet This Week includes information on the Georgia Peanut Commission referendum and results from a University of Florida water issues survey. Want to learn more? Click here to subscribe and view the current issue. Sponsored ContentValley Helps Growers Get The Most Out Of Every AcreMarch 19, 2026Florida Cattle Enhancement Board Builds Relationships Between Researchers and Cattle …
Florida NRCS Office in Santa Rosa County Moves
USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Service field office in Santa Rosa County, Fla., has moved. District Conservationist Trent Mathews hopes producers will stop by their new office during an open house event coming up April 14. Download Audio Sponsored ContentValley Helps Growers Get The Most Out Of Every AcreMarch 19, 2026Florida Cattle Enhancement Board Builds Relationships Between Researchers and Cattle ProducersMarch …