an agricultural irrigation system on sunny summer day. An aerial view of a center pivot sprinkler system. (Photo courtesy of AdobeStock.)

How much can precision ag tech help with water crisis?

Max Irsik

Turning acres into opportunity

Broadcast legumes when there is snow or frost on the ground to improve pasture quality and profits. (Photo by Linda Geist)

Rattlesnake Creek Watershed proposal alarms Kansas counties 

Lesser prairie-chickens during a lek in late April. (Photo courtesy of Michael Smith.)

Texas court weakens federal protections for lesser prairie-chicken

Oklahoma’s Jimmy Emmons sworn in as assistant chief of NRCS

NRCS celebrates 90th anniversary 

USDA

Enrollment opportunities ahead for CRP

(Journal stock photo.)

Farm bill conservation programs essential to High Plains