The Conservation Reserve Program incentivizes farmers to take environmentally sensitive land out of production. Project 2025 says the Trump administration should champion its elimination.

Under a 40-year-old law, the U.S. Department of Agriculture can withhold subsidies, like crop insurance and disaster payments, from farmers who clear, drain or convert wetlands. A company that ...

A Midwest farmland owner tests a longstanding wetland conservation law called 'swampbuster' Harvest Public Media | By Rachel Cramer Published January 20, 2025 at 4:00 AM CST ...

Environmental conservation efforts have met with bipartisan support in recent years. That trend will be tested Nov. 5, when a half-dozen conservation referendums will be on Midwest ballots, many ...

A new study published today in the journal Conservation Biology has found that songbirds modify their migration patterns when migrating through the vast agricultural landscape of the Midwest known ...

People in many parts of the Midwest have been dealing with smoke from Canadian wildfires all week. Wisconsin had the worst air quality in the country Wednesday. NPR checks in on people in Milwaukee.

In this blog post, WUDPAC Class of 2025 Fellow Kacey Green shares some of the objects conservation treatments from her third-year internship at the Midwest Art Conservation Center, performed while in ...

Millions prepare for severe storms in the Midwest and South. Updated May 20, 2025 1:42 AM ET Originally published May 19, 2025 2:23 PM ET. Jaclyn Diaz ...

5 dead after tornado hits St. Louis 00:26. More than 20 people in Kentucky and Missouri were killed after severe storm systems, including multiple tornadoes, swept across the Midwest on Friday.

Powell Gardens launched the Midwest Center for Regenerative Agriculture in partnership with Good Oak LLC. MCRA is a new program that advocates for land conservation.

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (KY3) — Conservation departments around the Midwest spend millions of dollars each year to remove invasive Asian carp. Agents introduced the fish in the 1970s to combat algae in ...

The Conservation Reserve Program incentivizes farmers to take environmentally sensitive land out of production. Project 2025 says the Trump administration should champion its elimination.