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

Irrigated soybeans in Keith County, Nebraska are watered by the Ogallala Aquifer. The vast underground reservoir reaches as far south as Texas, where it has declined as much as 36% since the 1950s. In Nebraska, the Ogallala has decreased by just 0.34% on average, according to analysis of U.S. Geological Survey reports, although the state’s southwest counties are showing a much greater decline. (Photo courtesy of Bill Spiegel.)

A lifeline of the High Plains—irrigation in focus