Farm Bill 101: Conservation Compliance Provisions
Join Mary Pfaffko, Senior Policy Analyst for Private Lands, to learn how the Conservation Compliance is critical to protecting a variety of species and their habitats!
Video Transcript:
Through the Farm Bill the US Department of Agriculture incentivizes farmers and ranchers to conserve natural resources on their land to receive these voluntary incentives. Participants agree to have a soil conservation plan for their highly irritable soil and to not drain or fill a wetland to farm the land. Why does this matter? Picture this. It’s 200 years ago on North America’s Great Plains. It’s teeming with bison, black-footed ferret, greater … Continue