Posts Tagged: stewardship

Senate Listens to Public & Makes Crop Insurance More Accountable to the Environment

Posted June 22nd, 2012 by Brian DeVore, Land Stewardship Project & filed under agriculture, Food and Sustainable Agriculture, Loon Commons blog.

The  U.S. Senate passed its version of the 2012 Farm Bill this week. While it’s far from perfect, specific amendments related to conservation and accountability  that were passed during the… Read more »

Rolling Our Land To Death

Posted June 8th, 2012 by Brian DeVore, Land Stewardship Project & filed under agriculture, Food and Sustainable Agriculture, Loon Commons blog.

I sat in a farmhouse one afternoon last month as a hot wind lifted rich topsoil from surrounding fields. On the drive in, I’d noticed a surprising amount of rill… Read more »

CSP: Working out the Warts

Posted May 14th, 2010 by Brian DeVore, Land Stewardship Project & filed under Food and Sustainable Agriculture.

The USDA announced this week that farmers have until June 11 to fill out an application for the latest round of Conservation Stewardship Program contracts. That’s a narrow window of… Read more »