WASHINGTON, April 22 -- Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith issued the following news release:
U.S. Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.) today stressed the importance of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) filling a key personnel post that, if left vacant, will imperil the ability of Mississippi landowners to participate in voluntary conservation programs.
Hyde-Smith addressed the need for the USDA to hire a Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) cultural resource specialist in Mississippi during a Senate Agriculture Appropriations Subcommittee hearing to review the FY2027 USDA budget request.
"The problem is primarily associated with NRCS's working lands programs, which are so vital to allowing farmland to remain in production, while also ...