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I am approaching this topic from the perspective of a farmer:
A farmer who realizes that our responsibilities in restoring and conserving the land and water apply to all uses, agricultural and nonagricultural.
A farmer who now leads the Soil Conservation Service (SCS), an agency that has the technical diversity to help with all aspects of land conservation and restoration, but whose most immediate priority and challenge is to help farmers meet the conservation requirements of the 1985 and 1990 farm bills.
A farmer who recognizes that society is going in the direction of legislating its environmental expectations in more and more detail.
From this perspective I would like to accomplish two things. The first is to emphasize residue management, a technology that is going to make a dramatic change on the agricultural landscape and change the whole farming industry. The second is to share my philosophy on how we should approach the restoration and conservation of our land and water in an era …
Footnotes
William Richards is chief of the Soil Conservation Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, P.O. Box 2890, Washington, D.C. 20013. This article is based on his presentation at SWCS s 46th annual meeting in Lexington, Kentucky.
- Copyright 1991 by the Soil and Water Conservation Society
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