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Natural Resources Conservation Service

NRCS

The USDA agency delivering conservation programmes on working lands, providing technical and financial assistance to agricultural producers and forest landowners.

Jurisdiction
United States
Government level
Federal
Authority type
Agency
Status
Active

Visit the official websitehttps://www.nrcs.usda.gov

Responsibilities

Each item below is recorded from the authority’s own published material, not inferred from its name.

  • Land managementStatutory

    Operates USDA’s conservation programmes on working agricultural and forest land, providing technical and financial assistance to producers.

    Source: Natural Resources Conservation Service (USDA)

  • Soils

    Named for natural resources conservation; its flagship programme addresses soil health and erosion among its stated resource concerns.

    Source: Natural Resources Conservation Service (USDA)

Registries and databases

Official systems this authority administers, as recorded in the AgricultureID registry corpus.

  • Soil Survey Geographic Database (SSURGO)Soil survey

    Detailed soil survey of the United States, mapped by the National Cooperative Soil Survey

All official registries

Why this body is recorded

Official name of the body responsible in United States.

Official source
Source page
https://www.nrcs.usda.gov
What the source says
“Natural Resources Conservation Service”(official name)
Standing
Verified against the sourcelast verified 2026-08-20
  • This is an agency within the United States Department of Agriculture; this record describes the agency, not the parent department.
  • The statutes under which the agency acts are set out in United States law and are not enumerated here.

Evidence shows what an official source published and what AgricultureID made of it. The two are always shown separately: quoted text is the source’s own, and a normalised value is AgricultureID’s vocabulary, not a quotation.

Sources and verification

  • Official www.nrcs.usda.gov site loaded in a real browser on 2026-08-20; it resolved with HTTP 200 identifying the agency as Natural Resources Conservation Service.

    Verified 2026-08-20 against https://www.nrcs.usda.gov · domain classification: Official subdomain

Important limitations

  • This is an agency within the United States Department of Agriculture; this record describes the agency, not the parent department.
  • The statutes under which the agency acts are set out in United States law and are not enumerated here.

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