USDA to spend $36 million on Iowa flood plain buy-outs

September 6, 2019 Carol Kuster State News 0

The U.S.D.A. will spend up to $36 million to buy Iowa land damaged by Missouri River flooding. The money to pay landowners comes from the U.S.D.A. Emergency Watershed Protection Program. Iowa property owners in the flood zone may apply to permanently turn the land over to the federal government for a “conversation easement.” The easements […]