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‘The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Role in America’s Private Lands Conservation Movement: Chronology of Key Developments – 1933 Through 2019,” by Thomas Christensen

February 25, 2020by blackwoodsgroup

USDA’s Role in America’s Private Lands Conservation Movement

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Blog
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New paper on agricultural data

April 24, 2019by blackwoodsgroup

Technological advances are driving rapid growth in the collection and use of farm and ranch production data. First introduced in 1863, U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) farm and ranch production […]

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Agricultural data, Policy

The 2020 President’s Budget Shortchanges Agriculture

March 20, 2019by blackwoodsgroup

It’s not so much what it says but what it doesn’t say—and the 2020 President’s Budget, released on March 10, 2019, has little to say about natural resources conservation. The […]

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Conservation, Policy
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The 2019 President’s Budget Misreads the Data and Misses the Point

February 21, 2018by blackwoodsgroup

Last week the White House released its 2019 budget proposal, essentially the Administration’s policy priorities for the coming year. The “belt-tightening” for public services in this budget proposal is even […]

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Conservation, Farm Bill
Cropland in Mahantango Creek Watershed.

Crop Insurance and Conservation: A Risk Management Partnership?

January 18, 2018by blackwoodsgroup

Risk management interests loom large as this Farm Bill cycle speeds up, particularly with recent price trends, droughts, fires, floods, and related challenges to production and bottom lines. In House […]

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Conservation
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A Tale of Two Cities

March 10, 2015by blackwoodsgroup

The Des Moines Water Works Board of Trustees voted on Jan. 8, 2015, to issue an intent to sue counties in the Des Moines river and Raccoon river watersheds because […]

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Nutrient management
Transmission towers and wind turbines on the field.

Plains and Eastern Arkansas Delta Economic Study

February 1, 2015by blackwoodsgroup

The Arkansas Delta Economic Study (App-J of the Draft Environmental Impact Statement) assesses economic impacts of a wind energy transmission line. Economic assessment and report writing by Blackwoods Group.

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Green energy
Aerial view of farmland.

Investing in sustainability

January 31, 2015by blackwoodsgroup

Most of my career was spent as an economist with USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS). One of the things I dreamed of was harnessing the power of markets to […]

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Sustainability
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Opportunity to craft workable policy

March 21, 2014by blackwoodsgroup

Born in conflict—enacted by Congress in 1972 over President Nixon’s veto—the Clean Water Act (CWA) has served for more than four decades as the foundation for protecting water quality in […]

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Policy
Three men inspecting plants in a corn field.

A Public-Private Partnership to Enhance Voluntary Conservation

March 21, 2014by blackwoodsgroup

Co-authored by Doug Lawrence, “A public-private partnership to enhance the voluntary approach to nutrient stewardship”, considers how agricultural retailers and conservation districts can work together to enhance voluntary conservation.

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Conservation

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