Showing posts with label NRCS FSA. Show all posts
Showing posts with label NRCS FSA. Show all posts
Saturday, December 29, 2018

FSA Offices Closed; NRCS Offices Open

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That's the word .  For NRCS here. BTW, neither agency has updated its "farm bill" page to reflect the signing of the 2018 f...
Tuesday, May 15, 2018

The Parable of the Forms

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This paper is written by a law professor, so it's directed at legal procedures, but he uses the design and use forms as a way to make h...
Tuesday, February 13, 2018

Infoshare: Once More Unto the Breach

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Thought I was quoting The Charge of the Light Brigade , but it turns out it's Shakespeare's Henry V . This is triggered by an FCW...
Friday, May 12, 2017

USDA Reorganization

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A post here on it at ThinkProgress. The USDA report to Congress on the proposal. Basically it would move NRCS, RMA, and FSA under one n...
Friday, September 16, 2016

Editing Common Land Unit

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A QandA from the notes of the NASCOE convention: " : Are there discussions regarding allowing NRCS to edit our CLU layer? A: Brad P...
Wednesday, February 10, 2016

Love It--the Eternal Silos of FSA and NRCS

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Just realized I hadn't heard from NASCOE in a while so I checked the website, which has been completely redone. Here's what I love...
Sunday, November 29, 2015

Why Didn't We Do a Joint Legacy Viewer

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DOD and VA have had problems integrating their health care IT systems.  Now they've focused on a " Joint Legacy Viewer ", whic...
Sunday, March 01, 2015

Aerial Photography and Drones

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Farm Policy reports t hat NRCS got questioned over the possible use of drones for their work: Rep. Sanford Bishop: “Can you tell us if yo...
Friday, December 14, 2012

USDA and OIP

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FCW refers to the 6-month review of the digital government strategy.  Via links, I come on this page from USDA .  From what I see, it app...
Wednesday, May 02, 2012

Cross Compliance

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In the old days "cross-compliance" simply meant if you participated in the program for crop A on your farm you couldn't expand...
Monday, February 27, 2012

EWG and Conservation Compliance

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EWG has a paper on conservation compliance out Monday, in advance of a hearing tomorrow. I'm no expert on the subject, particularly ...
Tuesday, July 12, 2011

ACRSIP and USDA

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Mr. Scuse sees FSA getting acreage reports directly from the farmer's precision agriculture equipment, according to this post. The led...
Sunday, June 26, 2011

Rotate NRCS and FSA Employees?

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In order to get the national security types, the FBI's and ATF's and so forth, to talk to each over, some Senators are saying, let...
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Kudos and Brickbats FSA County Offices: Strongly Recommended

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Mr. Blankenship, a wheat grower from Washington, testified before the Senate Ag committee last week.  Excerpts from his testimony "In ...
Friday, May 20, 2011

Customer Service and Regulatory Burden

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Via NASCOE USDA requested comments on ways for reducing regulatory burden  under Obama's Executive Order 13563.  They were due by toda...
Wednesday, January 26, 2011

How To Reorganize

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So Obama proposed reorganizing government last night.  But by focusing on duplicated functions he implies the sort of reorganization which...
Friday, July 02, 2010

NRCS and FSA--Testimony from FSA

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I quote from a legislative statement dated today, the testimony of Mr. Lohr: Both FSA and NRCS are in the process of upgrading their techn...
Wednesday, March 10, 2010

House Ag and IT in USDA/FSA

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House Ag committee held a hearing on the status of USDA and FSA IT, including GIS.  Only the opening statements of the witnesses are availab...
Tuesday, January 05, 2010

Whoopsie--Was FSA One of the Agencies Which Goofed?

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Here's an example of a bureaucratic screwup, along with a somewhat exaggerated story. In sum, a 1996 law required executive branch agen...
Wednesday, December 09, 2009

What "Open Government" Doesn't Cover--Subordinate Offices

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Here, via OMBwatch, is the text of the Obama's administration instructions to agencies on opening government. I like it, but I think th...