NRCS lifts freeze on Mississippi flood mitigation funds
The Upper Bear Creek Watershed Project has received clearance to move forward with $26 million in federal funding for flood mitigation.
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USDA making $500 million available for new conservation easements
The program supports landowners and other entities in conserving, restoring and protecting wetlands, productive agricultural lands and grasslands at risk of being converted to other uses.
USDA to fund new wetlands conservation easements
Agency accepting proposals through Aug. 16, with priority given to proposals that target producers who conserve wetlands in disadvantaged communities or benefit them
USDA looks to fund $50 million in new wetlands conservation easements
Program enables partners to collaborate with local agricultural producers to safeguard and improve high-priority wetlands on farmland
$25 million program to give ethanol producers a boost into clean fuel markets
The 10-state project spans 100,000 acres of crops spread across 167 counties surrounding 13 ethanol facilities
