between CCNRD and NRCS?
Although NRCS and CCNRD are located in the same office (The USDA Service Center), there is a distinct difference in what we do. We are cooperating agencies and work together on many practices, yet we are separate agencies. NRCS partners with many agencies and organizations. Its closest partnership, which began over 70 years ago, is with conservation districts. NRCS staff works with conservation districts work with at the local level to provide technical assistance to farmers and ranchers as they voluntarily apply conservation measures to their private lands. The biggest difference between the two agencies is that NRCS is a federal agency and CCNRD is a local agency, a legal subdivision of the County. Each of us has separate budgets and the ability to do very different things. For example, NRCS provides mostly technical assistance and receives their money annually through the federal budget. They often have stricter deadlines and less flexibility on a local level. On the other hand, the
