11-15 NWR NRCS Conservation Programs

This is your Northwest report for Tuesday, November 15, I'm David Sparks and according to agri-puls.com, producers looking to enroll land into one of the largest government conservation programs have a few months to make their intentions known. Leonard Jordan is the NRCS Associate Chief for conservation and says producers will notice some changes in this sign up: "This program has been in play for several years. We have 70+ million acres enrolled that thousands of ranchers and farmers participate in. We got feedback from the last couple of years for things that could be recommended or utilized in order to integrate and improve it. We heard what they said, we have incorporated and as a result we have a lot of enthusiasm rolling out this new look CSP."

Elsewhere, The U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) today published the 2015 Pesticide Data Program (PDP) Annual Summary.  The 2015 PDP Annual Summary shows more than 99 percent of the samples tested had pesticide residues well below the residue levels established by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and 15 percent had no detectable residue.  Residues exceeding the tolerance were detected in 0.53 percent of the samples tested. EPA uses PDP data to conduct dietary risk assessments and to ensure that any pesticide residues in foods remain at safe levels and adverse health effects are unlikely.