The American Farm Bureau supports a bill introduced in the Senate that it says will bring much-needed reform to the USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Service compliance program.
The bill introduced by South Dakota Senator Mike Rounds would require the NRCS to provide more evidence to determine wetlands and allow farmers more rights in the appeals process.
Farm Bureau president Zippy Duvall says farmers have been treated unfairly by NRCS when trying to be good stewards of the land, often subjected to repeated, unjustified and costly decisions by the agency.
