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Alabama

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 Alabama Small Farmer Initiative
NRCS in Alabama has implemented an outreach effort called the Small Farmer Initiative Program.  The program is designed to help small-scale and limited resource farmers participate in NRCS programs.

Iowa

Sweeney shows NRCS Soil Conservationist Ryan Gerlich how pumps work to provide water to cows in three of seven paddocks -- Mike Sweeney used a tile line from his pond and an ag waterway to animal powered nose pumps (NRCS photo by Jason Johnson – click to enlarge)Good Neighbors
 After Mike Sweeney signed an Environmental Quality Incentives Program contract to install a multi-paddock rotational grazing system on his 70-acre pasture, he needed two livestock crossings his for cows to access Camp Creek from each paddock.



 
Massachusetts

(from left) cutting a ribbon of invasive plants are Christine Clarke, NRCS State Conservationist; Michael Whited, NRCS Soil Conservationist; Dean Mazzarella, Mayor, City of Leominster; and Friends of Sholan Farms members Neal Wynne, project manager, and Joann DiNardo, president (NRCS photo by Diane Baedeker Petit -- click to enlarge)Wildlife Habitat Restoration Project Launched at Sholan Farms
Members of the Friends of Sholan Farms joined federal, State and local officials to cut a “ribbon” of invasive plants, kicking-off a long-term federally-funded project to restore habitat for grassland nesting and migratory birds on Sholan Farms in Leominster.
 
New Jersey

Perfect Preservation Storm
After what New Jersey's Pilesgrove Township Mayor Ernie Bickford called a "perfect storm of events to make it work," the farm of Mario and Catherine Caltabiano was preserved through the NRCS Farm and Ranchlands Protection Program and other State and local programs.

South Carolina

Luke Nance (left) and Al McNeill (NRCS photo by Jason Johnson – click to enlarge)Engineers Celebrate 80 Years of Service
Many can say they have been with a company for 25 or 30 years, but how many can say they’ve been with an organization for 40 years?  Engineers Al McNeill and Luke Nance can — both having served 40-plus years with NRCS. 



 

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 Farmers, Ranchers to Have New Tool to Help Deal with Drought
To be released later this summer, the NRCS Drought Management Calculator has been three decades in the making.

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Climate Data Available to eFOTG Users
Through the Agriculture Applied Climate Information System, or AgACIS, eAuthenticated users of the electronic Field Office Technical Guide (eFOTG) in all 50 States and the Caribbean and Pacific Basins can now access a variety of climate data by specific National Weather Service (NWS) network reporting locations.

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1914 photo of a soil survey depicts two soil scientists at a road corner reading the odometer, taking the sight, and measuring distance and direction. (NRCS image — click to enlarge)Making a Soil Survey
This 1914 photo of a soil survey depicts two soil scientists at a road corner reading the odometer, taking the sight, and measuring distance and direction.  (NRCS image — click to enlarge). 

NRCS This Week features a weekly historical photo and caption.  NHQ, districts, States, RC&D councils, and all other NRCS entities are invited to submit a historical photo of activities or individuals who have worked or are working for the agency along with a caption. 
 

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