Situation No. 1 It has been a rough winter, and the gravel road from your place out to the paved two-lane road is more washboarded than ever.

If you’re really “hip” and in-the-know, like I am, you’ve no doubt heard the song Fancy Like by country artist Walker Hayes. The gist of the popular and catchy little ditty is that a feller, probably not entirely unlike me, sings his own praises for his occasional high-class ways when he takes his lady out on the town to Applebee’s.

Agricultural producers and landowners can sign up soon for the Conservation Reserve Program (CRP), a cornerstone conservation program offered by the USDA and a key tool in the Biden-Harris administration effort to address climate change and achieve other natural resource benefits.

Starting next week, the USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) will conduct the first-ever national agroforestry survey. Data collection begins Feb. 1 and concludes April 5, 2022.

The USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) is announcing several new and expanded opportunities for climate-smart agriculture in 2022.

Nufarm range and pasture solutions announced the 2022 Grassmanship Scholarship Program, again awarding one $5,000 and four $1,000 scholarships to current and incoming college agriculture students.

The Utah State University (USU) crops team has partnered with fertilizer researchers from around the West to host a virtual crop school on the evening (6:30-8:30 p.m.) of Jan. 11, 2022, to teach growers and crop advisers about strategies to deal with the doubling of fertilizer prices.

The transition into 2022 is well underway, with no shortage of questions related to supply and demand, domestic and export supply chains, input costs and growing conditions. We’re still waiting on some final numbers from 2021.

Adopting the ecologically sensitive, low-cost conservation management pasture-cropping practice could help landowners regain the health and resiliency of soils sustaining degradation over the years.