Farm Bill News and Archive
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2005 News Releases
August 29, 2005
 news release:
“Johanns Advances President’s Cooperative Conservation Vision at Historic White
House Conference”
August 25, 2005
news release:
“USDA Selects Watersheds for 2006 Conservation Security Program; Cooperative
Conservation on Working Land Benefits Soil and Water Quality and Wildlife
Habitat”
August 18, 2005
news release:
“USDA Selects proposals for Wetlands Reserve Enhancement program; Nearly $4.2
Million Available for the Program in Fiscal Year 2005”
July 25, 2005
news release:
“USDA Announces 2005 Conservation Security Program Contracts”
July 19, 2005
news release:
"USDA Releases $5 Million to Restore and Protect Wetlands in 20 States"
July 14, 2005
USDA Reallocates Nearly $12 Million To Protect Agricultural Land in 22 States
From Development
July 13, 2005
USDA Provides $5 Million for Sage Grouse Conservation and Recovery in 11 States
May 26, 2005
USDA Announces Closing Of
2005 Sign-Up For Conservation Security Program
May 23, 2005
USDA Approved $18.3 Million for
Limited Resource Farmers
May 16, 2005
USDA Provides $4 Million and Requests Proposals for Wetlands Reserve Enhancement
Program
May 11, 2005
USDA Announces Recipients of 2005 Conservation Partnership Initiative Grants
April 15, 2005
NRCS News Release: USDA Seeks Public Comment on National Priorities, Emerging
Issues for Environmental Quality Incentives Program
April 4, 2005
Johanns Lauds Voluntary
Conservation on Private Lands
March 31, 2005
NRCS news release:
“NRCS
Data Show Significant Gains in Agricultural Wetland Acreage”
March 17, 2005
Johanns Announces
Sign-Up, Expansion, Amendment to Interim Final Rule for 2005 Conservation
Security Program
February 9, 2005
USDA Awards More Than $22 Million in Environmental Quality Incentives Program
Funds to 17 States
February 8,
2005
NRCS News
Release: USDA Pilots Conservation Innovation Grants State-Level Competitions in
12 States and the Pacific Basin
January 31, 2005
USDA Provides Up to $5 Million in Conservation Innovation Grants for the
Chesapeake Bay Watershed
January 13, 2005
USDA Announces the Nation’s First Conservation Easement in the Grassland Reserve
Program
2004 News Releases, Media Advisories, and Speeches
December 17, 2004
USDA Provides Up to $1 Million and Requests Proposals for Conservation
Partnership Initiative Grants
December 6, 2004
NRCS News Release: Conservation Security Program Self-Assessment Workbook
Available for Producers
November 22, 2004
USDA Provides More Than $78 Million to Protect Farm and Ranch Land
November 2, 2004
USDA Selects Watersheds for 2005 Conservation Security Program Sign-Up
October 28, 2004
USDA
Provides Nearly $3.3 Million to Protect Agricultural Land in 16 States
October 26, 2004
USDA Announces Recipients of New Conservation Partnership Initiative Grants
October 22, 2004
Veneman Announces Release Of $1.6 Billion For Voluntary Conservation Programs On
Working Lands
September 30, 2004
USDA Provides More Than $1.9
Million Additional Funding for Grasslands’ Conservation
September 21, 2004
Private Working Lands Enhanced
Through Funding; Additional $1 Million to Ohio for Environmental Quality
Incentives Program
August 26, 2004
USDA Provides Additional
$600,000 to Improve Fish and Wildlife Habitat on Private Lands in 21 States
NRCS Provides Nearly $6
Million of Farm and Ranch Lands Protection Funds
USDA Announces First Conservation Security Program Contract Signings
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The very first contracts for the USDA´s Conservation Security Program have been
signed. ( Kristi Pettis and Deputy Secretary for Agriculture James Moseley)
Actuality: First Conservation Security Contracts
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Deputy Secretary for Agriculture James Moseley, from a farm in Vernon Center,
Minnesota, talking about the farm´s signing of the first CSP contract.
August 4, 2004
USDA Provides
$350,000 for Sage Grouse Habitat in Utah
July 30, 2004
USDA Provides
$8.5 Million to 13 States for Animal Agriculture Conservation
NRCS Provides
Nearly $6 Million of Farm and Ranch Lands Protection Funds
July 27, 2004
USDA Provides up to $1 Million
in New Conservation Partnership Initiative Grants
July 22, 2004
USDA to Assess Environmental
Benefits of Conservation Programs
July 16, 2004
DOE and USDA Award $25 Million in Joint Biomass Research and
Development Initiative
USDA
Awards $12 Million in Environmental Quality Incentives Program Funds to 14
States
June 9, 2004
Veneman Announces Interim Final Rule for Conservation Security Program
May 11, 2004
USDA Announces Interim Final
Rule and Public Comment Period for the Grassland Reserve Program
April 29, 2004
USDA Provided $32 Million for Limited
Resource Producers Through the Environmental Quality Incentives Program
March 22, 2004
USDA news release, “USDA
Releases $15 Million and the Interim Final Rule for Conservation Innovation
Grants”
March 16, 2004
USDA to Provide $84
Million to Protect Farm and Ranch Land” (March 16, 2004)
January 9, 2004
USDA To Hold 10 National
Public Listening Sessions On The Conservation Security Program
2003 News Releases, Media Advisories, and Speeches
December 17, 2003
Veneman Announces
Proposed Rule for the Conservation Security Program
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Video News Release: CSP Listening Sessions (2 minutes)
Webcast
of Agriculture Secretary Ann M. Veneman and other USDA officials hosting a tele-news
conference.
Transcript
Webcast
of NRCS Chief Bruce Knight hosting briefing.
August 6, 2003
USDA
Releases Payment Rates for Technical Service Providers: "Not to Exceed" Payment
Rates Established for Each State
July 17, 2003
USDA Signs
Technical Service Provider Agreement with Society of American Foresters
June 23, 2003
USDA Signs
Technical Service Provider Agreement with National Alliance of Independent Crop
Consultants
June 17, 2003
USDA Announces
Sign-Up for New Grassland Reserve Program
USDA Signs
Technical Service Provider Agreement with Environmental Management Solutions,
LLC
June 6, 2003
USDA News Release:
Veneman Announces New Incentives for Greenhouse Gas Reduction and Carbon Storage
May 15, 2003
USDA Offers Long-Term Protection for Essential Plant and Animal Habitat
May 14, 2002
Veneman Thanks USDA Employees on the First Anniversary of Farm Bill Signing --
USDA Completes Work on EQIP, Farm and Ranch Lands Protection, Grassland Reserve
and Forest Land Enhancement Rules
May 9, 2003
USDA Provides $53
Million to Farmers and Ranchers in 17 States to Help with Drought Recovery
May 4, 2004
USDA Establishes Watershed Approach for Conservation Security Program
April 9, 2003
USDA Requests Proposals for
the Farmland Protection Program
March 31, 2003
USDA Amends
Technical Service Provider Rule
March 26, 2003
News
Release: Veneman Announces $7 Million for Conservation Efforts in the Klamath
Basin
March 3, 2003
NRCS Unveils Web-Based Registry for
Technical Experts
February 10, 2003
NRCS Chief
Knight Announces Opportunity for Comment on New Conservation Security Program
January 30, 2003
President
Bush to Propose Record-Level $3.9 Billion for Conservation
Programs: Veneman Releases Proposed Rules for Environmental Quality Incentives
Program
Transcript
of Secretary Veneman's Address -- Including Announcement of the EQIP Proposed
Rule -- At the National Cattlemen's Beef Association Annual Convention,
Nashville, TN, January 30, 2003
2002 News Releases, Media Advisories, and Speeches
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 Video: 2002
Farm Bill
November 19, 2002
USDA Seeks
Comments on Income Limitation Proposed Rule (FSA Release No. 1696.02)
November 14, 2002
USDA Announces Final Rule for Conservation
of Private Grazing Land Program
October 29, 2002
USDA Seeks Comments on Farm and Ranch
Lands Protection Program
October 8, 2002
"Taking Conservation
Assistance to a New Level," Chief Knight's Remarks at the National Association
of State Departments of Agriculture, Lexington, KY, October 8, 2002
September 20, 2002
USDA
EQIP to Address Air Quality in California
September 16, 2002
Veneman Announces
the Availability of $10 Million in EQIP Funding to Drought-stricken States
September 9, 2002
September 6, 2002
USDA Releases $323
Million for Conservation Programs
August 21, 2002
Chief Knight's Remarks at NRCS Farm
Bill Conference
August 19, 2002
Knight
Announces Funding for Agricultural Management Assistance
August 7, 2002
USDA
Assists Klamath Basin Farmers
August 5, 2002
Secretary
Veneman Tours Farming Operations in Connecticut
August 1, 2002
Veneman
Releases State Funding Allocations for Environmental Quality Incentives Program
July 25, 2002
July 24, 2002
July 23, 2002
USDA
Provides Wildlife Habitat Recovery Help for Lands Damaged by Drought and Fire
USDA Authorizes
Emergency Relief for Montana and Nebraska
July 15, 2002
USDA Official Speaks at International
Conservation Conference July 11, 2002
Veneman
Announces $275 Million in Additional Funding for Environmental Quality
Incentives Program
June 18, 2002
June 12, 2002
USDA
Streamlines Conservation Programs
Transcript
of Press Conference on Farm Bill Implementation
Klamath Basin
Producers Benefit from Farm Bill
June 3, 2002
Transcript of
Press Conference on Conservation Provisions of the Farm Bill
USDA Commits
Historic Resources to Conservation on Private Working Lands
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