ASK THE EXPERT— A Q&A ON CURRENT CONSERVATION TRENDS WITH BRIANNA HENRY
By Laura Crowell
In a blog posting issued on January 16, 2025, Laura Crowel provided the following Ask the Expert Question and Answer article. Tis blog post and others from the United States Department of Agriculture’s Natural Resources Conservation Service can be found at the following link.
https://www.farmers.gov/blog/tag/natural-resources- conservation-service
Brianna Henry is the acting modeling team lead for the Cropland Conservation Effects Assessment Project (CEAP). Tis effort is led by the United States Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) to evaluate and inform voluntary conservation across the nation’s working lands.
Can you tell us more about CEAP
Croplands and how it gathers data? Trough CEAP, NRCS measures trends in cropland conservation practices and associated outcomes over time. NRCS partners with the National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) to conduct farmer surveys. By using farmer survey data and modeling, CEAP can assess environmental effects of conservation programs and practices implemented throughout the continental U.S.
NRCS has conducted two previous CEAP assessments, from 2003 to 2006 and 2015 to 2016. And we just published a report series that shares comparison data, on a regional basis, from these two assessments.
What type of information is included
in these new regional reports? CEAP II data are organized and published based on 11 CEAP production regions. Because the region boundaries are defined by 8-digit Hydrologic Units (HUC), some states are included in multiple reports. (Hydrologic unit codes, or HUCs, identify all the drainage basins in the United States in a nested arrangement, from large to small.)
Brianna Henry is the acting modeling team lead for CEAP Croplands for the NRCS Resource Assessment Branch. She may be reached at Brianna.Henry@usda. gov. Photo by Laura Crowell.
In this Ask the Expert, Brianna answers questions about shifts in conservation adoption and associated effects published in a new regional report series. Findings are intended to help guide conservation policy and program development and help conservationists, farmers, and ranchers in their conservation decisions.
Te new CEAP II report series shares findings from the 11 regions across the continental U.S. that are shown in the map above.
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