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Small Operation Perseveres Until Drought Relief Comes

May 28, 2014 Brenda Carlson, Lead Regional Public Affairs Specialist, Farm Service Agency

This post is part of a disaster assistance program feature series on the USDA blog. Check back every Wednesday as we showcase stories and news from USDA’s Farm Service Agency. Keegan Poe of Johnson County, Indiana is a busy man. Not only is Poe a regional manager for Indiana Farm Bureau, but in his...

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A Wetland Returns to its "Roots" Through a Conservation Easement

May 28, 2014 Jody Christiansen, Illinois Natural Resources Conservation Service

If the land floods more often than growing a crop, why not let it go back to what it wants to be – a wetland. That’s what happened on the Hoppe Heritage Farmstead in 2011. The Hoppe sisters owned cropland along the southern branch of the Kishwaukee River in DeKalb County, Ill. About half of the land...

Conservation