The agency has doubled funding for its Section 319 program and has asked Congress to increase monies for states' revolving funds. Increasingly, the public expects us to work together on ecosystem and watershed issues. He believes this is what leadership is all about. He also served as chair of the NACD Agricultural Resource Conservation Committee. He owns and operates a 7,800-acre small grain and cattle operation in the Palouse region near Spokane, Washington.
Principal crops are winter wheat, barley, spring wheat and alfalfa hay, as well as cattle and hogs.
He also runs a partnership operation of 6,000 acres in nearby Latah County, Idaho. Active in his local conservation district, he was a supervisor of the Palouse Rock Lake Conservation District since 1974, serving as chair from 1978 to 1989, when he was elected president of the Washington Association of Conservation Districts. The District Outlook Committee wants input from you to guide its efforts. Then drop it off in the boxes at the Registration Booth. NACD selects U.S. Senator Thad Cochran for Distinguished Service Award NACD will award U.S. Senator Thad Cochran of Jackson, Mississippi, the Distinguished Service Award.