Adams County SWCD Farming Services: Your Trusted Partner

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The conservation practice standard contains information on why and where the practice is applied, and it sets forth the minimum planning criteria that must be met during the implementation of that practice in order for it to achieve its intended purpose(s). 

Web Soil Survey (WSS) provides soil data and information produced by the National Cooperative Soil Survey. It is operated by the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) and provides access to the largest natural resource information system in the world. 

 4R Nutrient Stewardship provides a framework to achieve cropping system goals, such as increased production, increased farmer profitability, enhanced environmental protection and improved sustainability. 

 Getting a farmers.gov account gives you access to financial assistance features, conversation management tools, and more. 

 Across Indiana, 92 Soil and Water Conservation Districts (SWCDs) - one in every county - help Indiana residents to conserve land, water, forests, wildlife and related natural resources that encompass our state's 23 million acres. Their mission is to coordinate assistance from available sources - public and private, local, state and federal - in an effort to develop locally driven solutions to natural resource concerns. 

The Indiana State Department of Agriculture is once again offering a no-cost, soil sampling program for Hoosier producers!

The program focuses on soil sampling and testing as it is a key component, and first step, of developing a plan for nutrient management. This program includes row crop, pasture, hay and specialty crop fields located within Indiana’s portion of the Mississippi River Basin.