WASHINGTON, May 22 - Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced that USDA's Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) and its partners will invest nearly $32 million this year in financial ...

JACKSON, MS • The USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) has funds available for producers impacted by the recent winter storms in Mississippi. This funding is provided through the ...

The United States Department of Agriculture / Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) has financial assistance available to qualified Mississippi landowners wanting to create or restore longleaf ...

Albert Johnson Sr., 81, and his family raise cattle on about 15 acres near Lexington, Miss. During long spells without rain, like the drought this summer, the grass dries up and the Johnsons have to ...

The federal government has committed $5.3 million over four years to reducing nutrient and sediment runoff from land in the Kickapoo River Valley. “By targeting small priority watersheds within the ...

When the U.S. Department of Agriculture denied Albert Johnson Sr.’s application for a farm loan in the mid-1980s, he went to a private lender who made him list as collateral all 20 of his cattle and ...