The U.S. Department of Agriculture plans to provide $225 million in funding to 88 Regional Conservation Partnership Programs, including two that involve a partnership between Ducks Unlimited and USA Rice. Read More »
Tag Archives: Conservation
NRCS to expand shorebird conservation efforts in Louisiana
The Natural Resources Conservation Service has added 11 new projects, including one that protects Louisiana shorebirds, to its efforts that help agricultural producers make wildlife-friendly improvements. Read More »
Homer Lundberg of Lundberg Family Farms recognized for service to industry
Homer Lundberg, who with his three older brothers founded Lundberg Family Farms in Richvale, Calif., was honored at the recent California Rice Field Day for his decades of service to the rice industry and his community. Read More »
NRCS opens RCPP sign-ups in Texas rice belt
The Natural Resources Conservation Service has begun taking applications for the National Rice Regional Conservation Partnership Program in Texas. Read More »
NRCS opens 2nd round of RCPP sign-ups in Louisiana rice
The Natural Resources Conservation Service has opened a second application period for the Regional Conservation Partnership Program – Rice Stewardship Partnership Project in Louisiana rice. Read More »
An eye for conservation
The Durand family’s crop mix on their St. Martinville, La., farm includes rice, crawfish and resource protection. Read More »
Going Under Cover
Projects seek to demonstrate benefits of cover crops to rice production. Read More »
RiceTec, CPS partner on conservation project funding
Houston-based RiceTec has partnered with Crop Protection Services to contribute $75,000 to a conservation project led by University of Arkansas soil scientist Trent Roberts. Read More »
CA Water Rights
Farmers prepare for the possibility of new curtailments By Ching Lee Calif. Farm Bureau Federation When it came, the notice was disappointing but not surprising: The State Water Resources Control Board warned farmers, ranchers and other people with water rights to prepare for another round of curtailments in 2015. Coming off a year that resulted in water cutbacks to farms ... Read More »
Project Receives Major Grant
Rice industry, DU recognized for habitat conservation efforts Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack recently announced approved grants from the first round of proposals to the new Regional Conservation Partnership Program (RCPP). The USA Rice Federation, Ducks Unlimited, Inc. (DU) and more than 40 collaborating partners are pleased that the “Rice Stewardship Partnership – Sustaining the Future of Rice” project was ... Read More »