Kevin Norton

When it comes to conservation efforts by the USDA, in what areas is the Department focusing on now and into the future? "Certainly irrigation technology is moving very quickly," said Kevin Norton is acting Chief of the Natural Resources Conservation Service ...

The USDA is out with its updated national conservation practice standards.  "We have currently a 170 conservation practice standards and they frame the technical standards and the specifications for the conservation work that we do individually with producers," said Kevin Norton acting NRCS acting chief. "I ...

Earlier this week, the Natural Resources Conservation Service, NRCS, published a new list of updates to its National Conservation Practice Standards. The revisions include 58 standards that have been updated or revised since August. The 2018 Farm Bill required NRCS to review all 169 of its national conservation practices to seek opportunities to increase flexibility and incorporate new technolog

The final rule for the USDA's Environmental Quality Incentives Program, EQIP is now published in the Federal Register. "This final rule is just really what I would call a tweaking of the wording, but not any substantially new regulation coming through the final rule than what people actually saw in the interim final rule ...

Farming is not a nine to five job. And to help producers work around their sometimes hectic scheduled, USDA has rolled out near features on-line allowing for business to be conducted around the clock. "We've changed the look and feel of the conservation client gate in a way that is more intuitive, more comfortable to the user experience, as they begin to look at their farm, their needs, and

Incentivizing conservation agriculture has been a concept developing in to practical application for some time.  So how to further advance an ecosystem marketplace and potential value and benefits to both producers and the environment?   "If you're going to make meaningful contributions to carbon sequestration, water quality, reductions in agriculture use of water, water conservation measures