Slopes greater than ten percent are better suited to other practices, like terracing.

That same month, lawmakers passed a bill creating the Soil Conservation Service ... contour plowing and terracing hillsides. “It was not hard to get people on board with these conservation ...

Based on the results of these nuclear applications, soil conservation measures can be implemented, such as terracing, contour cropping, strip cropping, minimum tillage, no tillage, mulching, cover ...

Ninety years ago this month, in the depths of the Great Depression, Congress created a new agency within the U.S. Department of Agriculture to safeguard rural prosperity for future generations ...

We’re here. This is what we’re doing,’” Cricket DeLoe says. In 1935, President Franklin D. Roosevelt established the Soil Conservation Service, now known as the Natural Resources Conservation Service ...

Earth Funeral owns a 5-acre piece of old logging land in Quilcene, said Morris. The company is using the land for restoration and conservation efforts supported by soil coming from the terramation ...

For nine decades now, rural Americans have counted on conservation programs from the Department of Agriculture to help them boost soil health and ensure their lands are productive for generations ...