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USDA offers $20 million for Calif. water conservation

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WASHINGTON — USDA is backing water conservation efforts in drought-stricken California with $20 million in new funding.

Its Natural Resources Conservation Service is making the funds available to growers and ranchers who apply by March 3 through the Environmental Quality Incentives Program.

“The conservation resources are basically a grant to assist producers,” USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack said in a Feb. 4 conference call with reporters. “It’ll be focused on improving irrigation efficiency, providing resources to stabilize fallow ground that can’t be farmed and to assist with watering facilities and grazing distribution.”

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