Items Tagged with 'Natural Resources Conservation Service'

More than 15,000 of approximately 100,000 employees at USDA are preparing to leave the agency after accepting buyout offers that will allow them to keep being paid through the end of September, according to numbers shared with Agri-Pulse by a Capitol Hill source.

Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins said Tuesday she hopes services have not been disrupted due to the termination of leases for Farm Service Agency and Natural Resources Conservation Service offices. And, speaking of impending tariffs on trade partners, she told farmers that they should trust President Donald Trump.

With hundreds of new NRCS employees coming onboard, agency officials must now grapple with how to effectively train up and keep on a generation of younger workers while simultaneously rolling out billions of new farm conservation dollars.