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General Services: Extension and advisory services: Natural Resource Conservation Service (NRCS): Conservation Operations - Extension, advisory, and training service functions. In providing technical assistance, USDA agencies explain and determine eligibility for conservation programs, help develop individual conservation plans, help install approved practices, provide information and educational assistance, and consult with universities and other government agencies. NRCS also conducts soil surveys, assesses erosion factors, and conducts snow surveys.

Payments for relief from natural disasters: Farm Service Agency (FSA): Emergency loans - Emergency loans provides emergency funding and technical assistance for farmers and ranchers to rehabilitate farmland damaged by natural disasters and for carrying out emergency water conservation measures in periods of severe drought.

Payments for relief from natural disasters: Wildfire and Hurricane Indemnity Program (WHIP): WHIP covered production losses due to hurricanes, wildfires, and other weather-related losses during 2017. WHIP+ covered production losses due to these natural disasters in 2018 and 2019. Producers must have suffered a loss due to an eligible disaster event in a primary county that received a qualifying Presidential Emergency Disaster Declaration or Secretarial Disaster Designation or have experienced an extreme or exceptional drought. Eligible commodities include crops, trees, bushes, and vines. Producers of uninsured eligible commodities could receive a payment under WHIP if the loss exceeded 35% of production; (...).

Environmental programmes: Farm Service Agency (FSA): Emergency Conservation Program - Assists in funding emergency conservation measures necessary to restore farmland damaged by natural disasters.

Environmental programmes: Farm Service Agency (FSA): Conservation loans - Loans are made to cover costs of implementing qualifying conservation projects. Reported expenditure is interest subsidy for direct and guaranteed loans.

Environmental programmes: Natural Resource Conservation Service (NRCS): Voluntary Public Access and Habitat Incentives Program (VPA-HIP) - Provides grants to State and tribal governments to implement programs to encourage farmers and ranchers to develop enhanced wildlife habitat and allow public access on their lands for wildlife dependent recreation. (...).

Environmental programmes: Natural Resource Conservation Service (NRCS): Agricultural Management Assistance Program - Provides cost-share assistance for conservation practices that improve water management, water quality, and erosion control. (...).

Environmental programmes: Natural Resource Conservation Service (NRCS): Conservation Stewardship Program - Provides payments for structural and land management practices that address resource concerns. (...)

Environmental programmes: Natural Resource Conservation Service (NRCS): Grassland Reserve Program - Long-term contracts or easements to restore and conserve grassland. (...).

Environmental programmes: Natural Resource Conservation Service (NRCS): Wetland Reserve Program - Conservation and restoration of wetlands through long-term agreements. Producers must implement a conservation plan and retire crop acreage base. (...).