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Category Archives: Policy

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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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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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