This Soil Conservation Issue stamp was issued as a tribute to the farmers and ranchers who use soil and water conservation methods, such as contour farming or terracing, crop rotation, windbreaks and ...

“They helped a lot of local farmers and taught them how to do the terracing of their crops and contouring so it created soil conservation and allowed the water to sink in instead of running off.

Preventing desertification requires a combination of environmental, agricultural, and social efforts. Here’s how to prevent ...

The Iowa Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship and the Iowa Department of Natural Resources announced Aug. 5 that ...

Water quality projects near publicly-owned lakes in KMAland have received state funding. The Iowa Department of Agriculture ...

In addition to identifying key areas with high erosion and sediment transfer, fallout radionuclide methods also enable better targeting of soil conservation measures. This increases farmers’ ability ...

Even before then, soil conservation was happening in Spartanburg. In 1933, a demonstration site was set up in the South Tyger watershed, near Poplar Springs at the J.L. Berry farm.