Showing posts with label NRCS. Show all posts
Showing posts with label NRCS. Show all posts
Wednesday, February 24, 2021

FSA Administrator Designate

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    Zach Ducheneaux is f rom South Dakota and a Native American, the first for FSA. USDA announcement. Gloria Montano Greene is nominated t...
Saturday, August 31, 2019

Farmers Working with FSA and NRCS

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Agriculture.com talks about the traffic to FSA (and NRCS) offices, listing six trips required.  But I found these reported farmer interact...
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...
Thursday, September 07, 2017

More Reorganization for USDA

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Sec. Perdue has a press release describing further reorganization in USDA.  For my own interests, FSA loses the commodity procurement (used...
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...
Sunday, April 17, 2016

Pearlie Reed Dies

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See Vilsack's statement, his obituary ,a new story and a personal memory.
Tuesday, February 09, 2016

Great Work--NRCS

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"Agriculture’s “Natural Resources Conversation Service dropped 13 places to rank 25th overall in the 2016 Index – no other agency fell...
Monday, July 13, 2015

House Ag Appropriations

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From the House appropriations ag subcommittee; Here's the committee report on MIDAS: "Information Technology Waste .—GAO and...
Tuesday, June 02, 2015

The Receipt for Service II

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I've got a problem with the Receipt for Service implementation. Just in terms of bureaucracy and system design, county employees are as...
Sunday, May 31, 2015

USDA "Receipt for Service" Initiative I

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USDA's Office of Advocacy and Outreach published an FR notic e of a June meeting on USDA's "Receipt for Service" initiati...
Friday, May 29, 2015

NRCS e-Site

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From NRCS, part of their new site for farmers. Learn how to obtain a  SCIMS  record  and eAuthentication Account to access Conservati...
Monday, February 16, 2015

Improper Payments, FSA, and OIG

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From today's Farm Policy, reporting an exchange in a hearing with House Appropriations and OIG: "[OIG] In some of the other prog...
Monday, May 12, 2014

Reinventing Government--How Soon We Forget

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Remember Al Gore?  And his reinventing government?  Apparently neither GAO nor USDA do. A quote from a new GAO report: In fiscal year 20...
Monday, February 24, 2014

Blast from the Past: ACP

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The old Agricultural Conservation program was in operation when I joined ASCS.  I can remember a trip by a county executive director (Pitt c...
Monday, November 11, 2013

No-Till Farming

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  I was going to use a snarky title for this, like urbanites find out about no-till farming, but instead I'll just refer to an article o...
Tuesday, July 30, 2013

Ding, Ding, Goes GAO on NRCS and RMA

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Ah, the joys of schadenfreude.  Some years after GAO dinged FSA for making payments to dead people GAO revisited the subject, but this time ...
Wednesday, July 17, 2013

Sharing Versus Centralized Data

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The VA and DOD have been working off and on to setup one centralized healthcare record for military personnel.  It makes sense: someone sta...
Wednesday, September 19, 2012

NRCS IT Type

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Federal Computer Week Government Executive profiles the whippersnapper who now heads up NRCS IT. It's fine, but it sounds as if NRCS...
Thursday, May 03, 2012

Conservation Compliance and NRCS

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Via Farm Policy, the Grand Forks Herald reports on a backlog of wetland determinations at NRCS, a big enough issue to get the agency head ou...
Wednesday, April 18, 2012

Dueling Aerial Compliance: NRCS and FSA

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ASCS/FSA has long used aerial photography to validate acreage reports.  It was a big deal in the 70's when we moved to aerial compliance...