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Farmers, ranchers and other landowners have installed 1.54 million miles of conservation buffers. Farmers who install buffers improve soil, air and water quality, enhance wildlife habitat and create scenic landscapes. Source: U.S. Natural Resources Conservation Service
As of January 2007, livestock and crop farmers enrolled 37 million acres of their land in the Conservation Reserve Program to protect the environment and provide habitat for wildlife. Source: U.S. Natural Resources Conservation Service
America’s farm families produced a net increase of 263,000 acres of wetlands from 1997-2003, a net gain of 44,000 acres per year. This was the first increase since the service began compiling data on wetlands acreage in 1954. Source: U.S. Natural Resources Conservation Service
More than half of America’s farmers intentionally provide habitat for wildlife. Deer, moose, fowl and other species have shown significant population increases for decades. Source: American Farm Bureau Federation
The erosion rate by water on U.S. cropland has been reduced by more than 40 percent since 1982. Source: Conservation Technology Information Center, NRCS-USDA
For the past decade, some form of conservation tillage was used on 109 million acres of the total U.S. acres farmed (293 million acres in 2003). Source: Conservation Technology Information Center, NRCS-USDA
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