Conservation and Resources Management
Agriculture is critical to the health and prosperity of the Nation. This economic mainstay is based in the land resources of this vast country. In the lower 48 states, more than 60 percent of the public and private lands is in cropland, pastureland, and rangeland owned or utilized by farmers and ranchers and their families. This percentage jumps dramatically if you include the privately held forestland that many landowners manage. It is proper, then, to view the majority of the land in this country as working agricultural land. It is the product of the hopes, dreams and aspirations of millions of individuals and generations of people that have sought to make a better life for themselves, their families, and in the process a better country.
Our country and the world still depend on these working lands for its much needed food and fiber. But our country is also looking to these lands for something else — a contribution to improving the country’s environment. NASDA wholeheartedly supports this objective. The challenge is how to maintain an economically viable and healthy working agricultural landscape producing the food and fiber on which the country depends, while improving the environmental benefits that the country seeks.
We must meet this challenge to preserve sustainable agriculture — keeping agricultural lands working in support of thriving, healthy economic and business activities, while incorporating into farm and ranch operations the practices and systems needed to maintain healthy environmental functions of the landscape. The American farmer and rancher and the consuming public want an agricultural production system that will not only be productive and profitable, but one that will also conserve resources, protect the environment, and enhance the health and safety of the public. NASDA believes this country and agricultural community can meet these challenges, provided that we create the correct balance of policies and incentives between agriculture and the environment.
Letters and Comments
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CERCLA-EPCRA Comments, March 2008 March 19, 2008
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Letter about Availability of Insecticide Carbofuran February 15, 2008
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Letter from 100 agriculture associations supporting H.R. 4502, "The Water Pollution Program Improvement Act." - June 30, 2000 June 26, 2000
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Comments on issues presented in the Draft Guidance Manual and Example NPDESPermit for Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations - December 3, 1999 November 24, 1999
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2003-10-23 Conservation Security Program (CSP) October 27, 2003
Letter sent to support the Conservation Security Program (CSP) - October 27, 2003
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2003-06-24 North American Pollinator Protection Campaign June 24, 2003
Letter to North American Pollinator Protection Campaign - June 24, 2003
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2002-05-21 Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA's) FY2004 budget priorities and planning. May 21, 2002
NASDA Letter on Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) FY2004 budget priorities and planning
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2002-04-10 Agricultural Stewardship Block Grant Program April 10, 2002
Letter to Farm Bill conferees concerning the Agricultural Stewardship Block Grant Program - April 10, 2002
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2001-03-15 Request to EPA to periodic meetings with the directors of the state agricultural departments March 15, 2001
Letter to EPA Administrator Christine Todd Whitman requesting periodic meetings with the directors of the state agricultural departments - March 15, 2001
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2000-07-14 Opposition to the TMDL rules July 14, 2000
Letter to the Administration urging the president not to go forward with the TMDL rules (July 14, 2000)
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Testimony
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2000-03-01 Statement by Jamie Clover Adams, Secretary, Kansas Department of Agriculture, on EPA's proposed regulations for TMDLs March 01, 2000
Statement by Jamie Clover Adams, Secretary, Kansas Department of Agriculture, on EPA's proposed regulations for TMDLs - March 1, 2000
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2000-02-15 Written Statement Submitted to the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, Subcommittees on Water Resources and Environment on EPA's Proposed Regulations for TMDLs February 15, 2000
Written Statement submitted to the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment on EPA's proposed regulations for TMDLs - February 15, 2000
Documents and Links
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Rep. Pomeroy EPA GHG Legislation - HR 4396
Adobe Acrobat, 157KB
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Sen. Murkowski EPA GHG Res. of Disapproval
Adobe Acrobat, 21KB
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NASDA Rangeland Presentation
PPT File, 5MB
PPT
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NASDA Talking Points on Rangeland Presenation
Microsoft Word Document, 27KB
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Review of the Conservation Effects Assessment Project (CEAP)
Adobe Acrobat, 2MB
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Updated "State Survey on Waste & Manure Management Regulations" (July 30, 2001)
Adobe Acrobat, 281KB
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Updated "State Survey on Waste & Manure Management Regulations" (June 26, 2001) http://www.nasda.org/joint/06-26-2001survey.html
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Agricultural Stewardship Program Issue Paper
Adobe Acrobat, 45KB
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Endangered Species Act Issue Paper
Adobe Acrobat, 38KB
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Working Partnerships Between Agrilcuture and Environment Issue Paper
Adobe Acrobat, 88KB
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