“I started as a customer of NRCS first,” says Aubrey Bettencourt, chief of the USDA agency that helps farmers and ranchers manage natural resources on private lands. As a third-generation California ...

ST. PAUL — A new state conservationist has been selected to lead USDA's Natural Resources Conservation Service in Minnesota. Don A. Baloun, a Wisconsin NRCS assistant state conservationist, will start ...

Ninety years ago, on April 27, 1935, the National Resources Conservation Service was established with the signing of the Soil Conservation Act amidst the Dust Bowl. In 2025, leaders of NRCS, sung its ...

Socially disadvantaged farmers in Arkansas benefit from a decades-old partnership between the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff (UAPB) and the U.S. Department of Agriculture Natural Resources ...

The Dust Bowl led to the creation of what is now called the Natural Resources Conservation Service. Just as it celebrates a major milestone, the agency is dealing with job losses, massive proposed ...