Popular North Dakota conservation program could attract federal funding

Popular North Dakota conservation program could attract federal funding

MAPLETON, N.D. (North Dakota Monitor) – Brian Roach, a retired farmer near Wheatland, North Dakota, has 35 acres of “HEL land,” or highly erodible land, on his property. But “once it gets some topsoil put back on and you give it a few years to stabilize … we’ll get some root structure from the grass. It’ll become pretty productive cropland,” Roach said. Roach is one of 150 farmers who put a combined 10,000 acres of their land into the Governor’s…