Updated NRCS site helps farmers and ranchers with conservation

Evolving to keep pace with the modern farmer and rancher, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) recently updated its website and created a new webpage—Get Started with NRCS.

This webpage features five steps to receiving assistance from the agency, according to Drovers CattleNetwork. Farmers, ranchers and forest landowners now have the process of applying for assistance available at their fingertips.

In addition, the agency revamped its About and Drought Resources and created a Resources for Small Farms page.

“We’ve found that more than 61 percent of people coming to our website were new visitors, many of whom were farmers, ranchers and forest landowners looking for information on conservation,” NRCS Webmaster Elisa O’Halloran said.