Soil and Water Conservation takes front page news in this months Agriculture Review.  Check it out on line:  http://www.ncagr.gov/paffairs/AgReview/pdf/Jan12AgReview.pdf

and, Commissioner Troxler sits down with the Southern Farm Network to talk about 75 years of Conservation.  It is a great recorded interview that is just 3 1/2 minutes long.

cool NC fact:  The work of Anson County native Hugh Hammond Bennett led to the formation of the federal government’s Soil Erosion Service in 1933.