Trouble Downstream: Upgrading Conservation Compliance

Due to lax standards and implementation problems, USDA's conservation compliance program is missing cost-effective opportunities to make further, substantial reductions in cropland soil erosion and agriculture-related toxic run-off. Conservation compliance is critical to mitigating the damage agriculture related pollution does to streams, waterways and the Gulf of Mexico.

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Featured Press:

• Bigger Farms or Cleaner Streams?

  Minneapolis Star Tribune | September 8, 2007

• U.S. Farmers Should Curb Fertilizer Runoff: Study

  Reuters | September 10, 2007

• Scorched Earth

  CNN | February 25, 2008

• Congress Not Done With Farm Bill

  Black Hills Pioneer | September 29, 2008

• Senate Cuts Would Shave $5 Million From S.D. EQIP Funds, Group Says

  Daily Republic | September 24, 2008

• Conservation Cuts in Spending Bills Grab Attention of Environmental Groups

  Hoosier Ag Today | September 12, 2008

• Senate May Give Growers Less Than Vowed

  Lubbock Avalanche-Journal | September 12, 2008

• Demand Already Exceeds Funding for Conservation Program That Could Suffer Cuts

  Mitchell Daily Republic | September 12, 2008

• Possible Cuts Draw Fire

  Bismarck Tribune | September 12, 2008

• Gulf of Mexico Dead Zone

  Green Muze | May 29, 2009

• Environmental group: Target U.S. aid at most polluted waters in Iowa

  Des Moines Register | May 29, 2009