conservation compliance

Senate Listens to Public & Makes Crop Insurance More Accountable to the Environment

June 22, 2012
Brian DeVore
agriculture, Food and Sustainable Agriculture, Loon Commons blog
conservation compliance, Conservation Reserve Program, Conservation Stewardship Program, crop insurance, Farm Bill, farm conservation, Land Stewardship Project, Senate, Senator Al Franken, Senator Amy Klobuchar, soil erosion, stewardship, sustainable agriculture, wetlands

The U.S. Senate passed its version of the 2012 Farm Bill this week. While it’s far from perfect, specific amendments related to conservation and accountability that were passed during the floor vote…
Let’s Stop Treating Soil Conservation Like Dirt

April 15, 2011
Brian DeVore
Food and Sustainable Agriculture
commodity programs, conservation compliance, Conservation Stewardship Program, CSP, farmland conservation, Iowa Daily Erosion Project, NRCS, soil conservation, soil erosion, USDA

Here’s the bad news: it turns out the USDA’s estimates that soil erosion rates are under control across the Corn Belt—something we reported in this blog last June—are probably overly optimistic, according…