Cape Atlantic Conservation District Leverages NACD Outreach and Technical Assistance Grants to Better Serve Small-Scale and Beginning Producers 06/10/2025
In the Atlantic and Cape May Counties of New Jersey, the Cape Atlantic Conservation District (CD) is using NACD Outreach and Technical Assistance (TA) Grant funding to build capacity and better support producers in their community. In the most densely populated state in the country, conservation support may look a little different here. In densely…… Continue reading →
Interview with a TA Grantee: Fulton County Conservation District 05/27/2025
In northern Arkansas, an NACD Outreach and Technical Assistance (TA) grant has helped the Fulton County Conservation District (FCCD) address conservation on more than 16,000 acres and develop over 70 conservation plans for producers in their county. The TA grant funding, made possible through an agreement between NACD and NRCS, has enabled the district to…… Continue reading →
Lincoln County Conservation District Promotes Conservation on Public and Private Lands with NACD Technical Assistance Grant 02/24/2025
Just north of Las Vegas, Nevada's Lincoln County is the seventh largest in the country. The county covers 10,637 square miles, 98% of which are public lands. Sparsely populated, producers in Lincoln County focus on the production of Alfalfa hay for dairies in neighboring California and graze livestock on public lands managed by the Bureau…… Continue reading →
French Ranch Farms and Humboldt County Conservation District Grow Forward with NACD Technical Assistance Grants 01/28/2025
Maurie Hobbs is the fourth generation in her family to work on the French Ranch in Humboldt County, California. It was her great grandparents’ homestead, and when the management was passed to her and her husband, Marty, they weren’t exactly sure what their first steps should be to create the future they wanted on the…… Continue reading →
Morrison SWCD Grows Cover Crop Adoption to 12,000 Acres in Three Years with Help from NACD Grant Funding 01/14/2025
[caption id="attachment_59120" align="alignleft" width="524"] TJ Kartes from Saddle Butte Ag is in the root pit showing the crowd the root system of cover crops during the 2022 Cultivating Soil Health Field Day.[/caption] "We’ve gone from not having a program to now having a leading soil health program in the state," reflects Shannon Wettstein, District Manager…… Continue reading →
Duplin County SWCD Builds Local Conservation Team with TA Grants 10/08/2024
In the fall of 2016, Hurricane Matthew hit eastern North Carolina, causing widespread flooding and record-breaking storm surge. More hurricanes followed in 2017 and 2018, each impacting eastern North Carolina and its agricultural producers with high winds, storm surges, and flooding that damaged crops and livestock operations and washed out roads. [caption id="attachment_56568" align="alignleft" width="299"]…… Continue reading →
NACD 2023 Annual Meeting TA Grant Participant: Michaela Slagle-Saylor 06/23/2023
This blog post is part of a six-part series highlighting technical assistance (TA) grant recipient participation at NACD’s 77th Annual Meeting in New Orleans, LA. This post’s author, Michaela Slagle-Saylor of Washington County Soil & Water Conservation District in TN, attended the meeting with a TA stipend. Washington County, Tennessee had an incredible opportunity for…… Continue reading →
NACD 2023 Annual Meeting TA Grant Participant: Katie Nicholas 06/09/2023
This blog post is part of a six-part series highlighting technical assistance (TA) grant recipient participation at NACD’s 77th Annual Meeting in New Orleans, LA. This post’s author, Katie Nicholas of Dane County Land & Water Resources Department in WI, attended the meeting with a TA stipend. Attending the 2023 NACD Annual Meeting in New…… Continue reading →
NACD 2023 Annual Meeting TA Grant Participant: Kyle Lemoine 05/26/2023
This blog post is part of a six-part series highlighting technical assistance (TA) grant recipient participation at NACD’s 77th Annual Meeting in New Orleans, LA. This post’s author Kyle Lemoine of Southern Rhode Island Conservation District in RI, attended the meeting with a TA stipend. A common quip at the National Association of Conservation Districts…… Continue reading →
NACD 2023 Annual Meeting TA Grant Participant: Joshua Kouri 05/12/2023
This blog post is part of a six-part series highlighting technical assistance (TA) grant recipient participation at NACD’s 77th Annual Meeting in New Orleans, LA. This post’s author, Joshua Kouri of Oklahoma County Conservation District in OK, attended the meeting with a TA stipend. Attending the NACD Annual Meeting for the first time is a…… Continue reading →