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Start with your local NRCS office, but don't overlook:

National/Midwest Organizations

  • Appropriate Technology Transfer for Rural Areas (ATTRA)
    P.O. Box 3657
    Fayetteville, Arkansas 72702
    Phone: (800) 346-9140
    E-mail: askattra@ncatark.uark.edu

    ATTRA offers free technical assistance to commercial farmers, either through customized research for specific questions, or through prepared materials on common topics.

  • Center for Rural Affairs
    P.O. Box 406
    Walthill, NE 68067
    Phone: (402) 846-5428
    E-mail: hn1721@handsnet.org

    The Center for Rural Affairs has established a Conservation Options Hotline at (402) 994-2021 to answer questions about conservation programs and practices. The Hotline can help guide farmers through the enrollment procedures for the programs listed above, and point to good sources of information on conservation practices.

  • Conservation Technology Information Center (CTIC)
    1220 Potter Drive, Room 170
    West Lafayette, IN 47906-1383
    Phone: (765) 494-9555
    Fax: (765) 494-5969
    E-mail: ctic@ctic.purdue.edu Website: http://ww.ctic.purdue.edu CTIC offers information on various conservation practices, including crop rotation and cover cropping, through its Farm Resources Management program. CTIC coordinates the MAX (Farming for Maximum Efficiency) Program, with partners that include the Monsanto Company, Bayer Corporation, Case Corporation, Successful Farming Magazine and the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service. The MAX program offers farmers tools for evaluating the economic returns of various tillage systems, and incorporating conservation objectives.

  • Farmers Legal Action Group, Inc.
    1301 Minnesota Building
    46 East Fourth Street
    St. Paul, Minnesota 55101-1109
    Phone: (612) 223.5400
    Toll free (Minn. only): (800) 233-4534
    Fax: (612) 223.5335
    Email: lawyers@flaginc.org

    Farmers' Legal Action Group, Inc. (FLAG) is a nonprofit law center. FLAG is dedicated to providing legal services to family farmers and their rural communities in order to help keep family farmers on the land. Since its inception, FLAG has provided an extensive array of legal services to financially distressed farmers and their advocates and attorneys nationwide.

    During the farm financial crisis of the 1980s, FLAG's work helped thousands of farmers weather that crisis and remain on their farms. Since that time, FLAG's work has broadened to include other issues of concern to family farmers and ranchers: the need for more sustainable agriculture, corporate concentration and vertical integration in the poultry and livestock industries, contract farming, race discrimination in USDA programs, accountability in government support programs, and legal help for farmers seeking to develop value-added enterprises.

  • Land Stewardship Project
    2200 Fourth Street
    White Bear Lake, MN 55110
    Phone: (612) 653-0618
    Fax: (612) 653-0589

    LSP is a private, nonprofit membership organization devoted to fostering an ethic of stewardship toward farmland. It is working to develop and promote sustainable communities and a system of agriculture that is environmentally sound, economically viable, family-farm based and socially just.

State Organizations

  • Practical Farmers of Iowa
    Rick Exner
    Room 2104, Agronomy Hall ISU
    Ames, IA 50011
    Phone: (515) 294-1923
    Email: dnexner@iastate.edu

  • Illinois Stewardship Alliance
    P.O. Box 648
    Rochester, IL 62563
    Phone: (217) 498-9707
    Fax: (217) 498-9235

  • Iowa Natural Heritage Foundation
    505 Fifth Avenue, Suite #444
    Des Moines, IA 50309-2321
    Phone: (515) 288-1846
    Fax: (515) 288-0137

  • Michigan Integrated Food and Farming System
    P.O. Box 4903
    East Lansing, MI 48826
    Phone: (517) 353-3209
    Fax: (517) 353-7186

  • Sustainable Farming Association of Minnesota
    c/o Tim King
    Rt. 2, Maple Hill
    Long Prairie, MN 56347
    Phone: (612) 732-6203

  • Innovative Farmers of Ohio
    Keith Dix
    1842 Bell Road
    Wooster, OH 44691
    Phone: (330) 262-1842

  • Wisconsin Rural Development Center
    125 Brookwood Drive
    Mount Horeb, WI 53572
    Phone: (608) 437-5971
    Fax: (608) 437-5972

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