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Rain Garden- New Attraction at Marion County Fairgrounds

          Thousand Cankers Disease Discovered in East Tennessee

Help Available for Farmers Fighting Damaged, Wet Fields

USDA-Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) has announced that Indiana NRCS has $6.5 million dollars available in Wetlands Reserve Program (WRP) funding for 2011.  WRP is the federal government's largest wetlands restoration program.  Through it NRCS provides technical and financial assistance to private landowners and Indian Tribes to restore, protect, and enhance wetlands that have been degraded or converted for agricultural uses.

For more information about WRP and to find out the 2011 GARC rates for your county, visit the Indiana NRCS WRP Web site at: http://www.in.nrcs.usda.gov/programs/WRP/WRPhomepage.html Interested producers should contact their NRCS district conservationist at a USDA Service Center to determine eligibility. Visit http://www.in.nrcs.usda.gov/contact/directory/field_offices.html to find the nearest USDA Service Center.  See attached news release for more details and contact information.

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