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Water quality efforts working, bay program reports

  April 4, 2019
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The Chesapeake Bay Program announced March 26 that water quality in the bay met its highest level since monitoring began in 1985, besting its previous record reported in 2017.


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Chesapeake Bay, Conservation, Farm Practices, Legislative Issues, News
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Farmers optimistic about conservation funding proposal

  January 10, 2019
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Environmentalists and farmers are greeting a proposal to expand state funding for water quality improvements with open arms.


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Conservation, Farm Practices, News
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Preservation efforts gain traction with Loudoun supervisors’ votes

  December 27, 2018
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In a Dec. 4 meeting, the Loudoun County Board of Supervisors approved two conservation initiatives proposed to help preserve the county’s rural areas.


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Conservation, Farm Practices, News
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Loudoun board takes steps to consider partial funding of conservation easements

  July 26, 2018
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Preserving Loudoun County’s rural areas is at the heart of a recent move by county supervisors.


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Agriculture Business, Conservation, Farm Practices, News, Virginia Farm Bureau
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Everyone can benefit from soil and water conservation districts

  May 31, 2018
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The state’s 47 soil and water conservation districts will use $7.2 million this fiscal year to help Virginians implement conservation practices.


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Conservation, Farm Practices, News
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Environment-friendly projects may be eligible for assistance

  April 27, 2018
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Virginia’s soil and water conservation districts historically have helped farmers implement conservation practices, but now they are helping homeowners as well.


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Chesapeake Bay, Conservation, Legislative Issues, News
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Close to 100,000 acres of Va. farmland in conservation program

  January 30, 2018
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Just three years after Virginia’s Resource Management Plan Program was implemented, the program has far exceeded its goal.


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Agriculture Business, Conservation, Farm Practices, News
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Bay celebration to showcase farm conservation efforts

  June 8, 2017
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Virginia farmers will be part of a June 10 celebration marking Chesapeake Bay Awareness Week.


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Chesapeake Bay, Conservation, Events, Farm Practices, News
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Transfer of CRP land to next generation of farmers is now easier

  February 23, 2017
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On Jan. 9 the U.S. Department of Agriculture began allowing farmers and ranchers to terminate their Conservation Reserve Program contracts early in order to transfer property to the next generation.


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Agriculture Business, Conservation, Farm Practices, News
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Farm group working to find funding for environmental practices

  February 2, 2017
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If it hadn’t been for state cost-share money, Ronnie Nuckols said, he wouldn’t have been able to install 14 fences to keep his cattle out of streams.


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Animals and Livestock, Conservation, Farm Practices, Livestock, News
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