Like most new things, the 2008 Farm Bill has raised many questions. How
will the new Farm Bill work? What will it mean to me? Will I qualify,
and what will I quality for? One wise woman said, “It is best to take
this in small bites.” Therefore, we wish to pass along what we know a
piece at a time starting with the Environmental Quality Incentives
program (EQIP). To read
our EQIP handout.
The 2008 Farm Bill - Part II - WHIP
The rule making process for the 2008 Farm Bill is currently underway, and how
its conservation provisions may apply to you specific situation, as always, is
best answered by a visit to your local Natural Resources Conservation Service
field office when information becomes available. We have created a brief article that
covers some of the noteworthy features of the Wildlife Habitat Incentives
Program as defined in the new 2008 Farm Bill.
To read our
WHIP handout.
Big
Problems Get Big Solutions
Take miles of New Mexico mesquite and counter them with a watershed
initiative, and you have the Lovington Field Office working at its
best. In 2007 NRCS New Mexico challenged its field offices to devote
funding on a landscape or watershed scale, and it would match
dollar-for-dollar monies that were set aside for such purposes. The
Lovington Field Office, along with the Portales Field Office, and its
locally-led work groups accepted the challenge.
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Being
Kind is Not Always the Answer
Being too kind is not the
answer sometimes – as the NRCS Los Lunas Plant Materials Center learned
in its efforts to produce vine mesquite for riparian restoration uses.
After two years with no success, the Center shifted tactics and replaced
kindness with stress.
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the Full Story
Tribes,
Pueblos Explore Native Plants
NRCS New Mexico’s Plant Materials Center in Los Lunas is an incubator
for native plant technology for a wide variety of farmers, ranchers, and
industries. And, recently it had the opportunity to showcase some of
its work to the Intertribal Nursery Council.
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Cuidad
SWCD Takes Healthy Watersheds to Heart
To ensure healthy
watersheds in New Mexico it takes public landowners, private landowners,
Natural Resources Conservation Service, soil and water conservation
districts, State Forestry, private non-profits, and a whole cadre of
individuals and organizations to make it happen. And, the Ciudad Soil
and Water Conservation District is taking this mission to heart in the
east mountain communities of Bernalillo county.
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CIG
Researches Soil Moisture
Water is a key ingredient in New
Mexico’s economic development – and a Conservation Innovation Grant
(CIG) experiment in the Burro Mountains is just one of the state’s many
NRCS supported projects to help watersheds yield more of this precious
resource.
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