The legislation would expand eligibility under the Emergency Forest Restoration Program and Emergency Conservation Program. The House is set to vote this week on legislation that would expand two ...

WASHINGTON (KOLN) - On Tuesday, the U.S. Senate unanimously passed Nebraska Sen. Deb Fischer’s Emergency Conservation Program Improvement Act to expedite agricultural producers’ access to federal ...

Farm bill provisions included in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act strengthened parts of the farm safety net, but reconciliation rules left major farm bill titles unfinished. The new Farm, Food, and ...

Agriculture Deputy Secretary Chuck Conner today announced that USDA will begin allocating $11.8 million in Emergency Conservation Program (ECP) funding for 18 states to help producers rehabilitate ...

LINCOLN, Neb. (KOLN) - The USDA is offering disaster assistance to help farmers and livestock producers recover from the wildfires in central and western Nebraska. Four majors wildfires have burned ...