USDA-NRCS launches $41 million initiative to improve water quality for Western Lake Erie Basin

According to a March 29 post by Ohio Ag Net & Ohio’s Country Journal, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced that USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Service will invest $41 million in a three-year initiative to support the work of farmers in Ohio, Michigan and Indiana to improve water quality in the Western Lake Erie Basin (WLEB). The initiative will help farmers implement science-based conservation measures to reduce runoff into the region’s waterways.

NRCS also released a new report through its Conservation Effects Assessment Project that evaluates the impacts of voluntary conservation in the WLEB. Click here to read the report.