NRCS Rhode Island
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Through a network of local field offices, USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service helps private landowners protect and enhance natural resources.
Rhode Island, USA
Joined December 2010
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Have you ever wondered how healthy your soil is? Take the Soil Your Undies Challenge and find out!
It is National Soil Health Day, and we are digging into the undie-cover work of soil microbes! That’s right it is time to Soil Your Undies. We know. we just had to go and make learning about soil weird, but we promise it is fun. Here's how to do it:
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RT @USDA_NRCS: We’re leading with the bottom line: your bottom line. You could save an average of nearly $30 per acre on fertilizer costs w….
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RT @USDA_NRCS: Military veterans, transitioning service members, & military spouses: two free webinars on how to work with USDA to prepare….
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RT @USDA_NRCS: RMA encourages oyster producers to attend a webinar on Aug. 27 to learn more about the Shellfish crop insurance program. Add….
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RT @USDA_NRCS: NRCS employees running to the field to put conservation on the ground like. 🐔 🏃
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RT @USDA_NRCS: Rain gardens are strategically located depressions landscaped with perennial flowers and native vegetation to allow some wat….
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RT @usda_nass: NASS & @USDA_NRCS are reaching out to farmers, ranchers, and agricultural landowners soon to gather in-depth information abo….
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RT @USDA_NRCS: It’s National Coloring Book Day! We have a special friend with her very own coloring book: Mighty Mini Microbe! Mighty Mini….
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RT @USDA_NRCS: The power of erosion is evident in this photo from 1934 in Columbia County, Washington. #NRCS90
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RT @USDA_NRCS: European honeybees get a lot of buzz, but native pollinators are estimated to pollinate 75% of flowering plants around the w….
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RT @USDA_NRCS: Some of the most powerful conservation happens quietly on land that’s protected not just for today, but for generations to c….
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RT @USDA_NRCS: Nursery producers should join the @usdaRMA informational workshop on Aug. 7th to learn about the Nursery Value Select (NVS)….
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RT @USDA_NRCS: Behold: the modest dung beetle. It breaks down 💩 and returns nutrients to the soil. This can reduce the survival rates of fl….
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RT @USDA_NRCS: For 90 years, we've been focused on the farmer. Through one-on-one, personalized advice, we work with producers and communit….
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RT @USDA_NRCS: Key to our 90-year history was the establishment of the conservation planning process by Hugh Hammond Bennett. Many of his i….
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A key part of NRCS’s 90-year history was the establishment of the conservation planning process by Hugh Hammond Bennett.
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RT @USDA_NRCS: The (literal) lengths one will go to take a soil sample! Seen here in March 1921, A.T. Sweet takes samples in a piedmont gul….
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RT @Defend_theFlock: Protect your peeps from avian influenza. Keep food, water and shelter clean and away from animals that can carry disea….
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RT @USDA_NRCS: Thomas' military experience and persistence served him well in growing his farm of watermelons, soybeans, native plants and….
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RT @USDA_NRCS: A high tunnel is a plastic covered structure that uses solar radiation and wind to raise and lower the internal temperature.….
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RT @USDA_NRCS: The (literal) lengths one will go to take a soil sample! Seen here in March 1921, A.T. Sweet takes samples in a piedmont gul….
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RT @USDA_NRCS: Implementing conservation practice like no-till is good for your soil and your bottom line. Less tillage means less passes i….
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