Local Working Group

What is this about?

Local Working Groups are composed of agricultural producers, owners/operators of nonindustrial private forest land, professionals representing agricultural and natural resource interests, and individuals representing a variety of disciplines in the soil, water, wetland, plant, forestry, and wildlife sciences who are familiar with agricultural and natural resource issues in the local community.

It’s that time – NRCS and Hillsborough Soil and Water Conservation District are asking for your input on NRCS’ funding priorities for FY 2026.

This year we are trying to get survey results with more than one option to respond.

1) Via response to this post, the FY26 Resource Concerns ranking sheet are listed below for your convenience; if you prefer to fill it and return by email ahead of time.

Please send survey with subject line “NRCS 2026 Survey attached”, to email soilandwater@HCFL.GOV

2) Strawberry Growers’ 2025 Agritech Conference on May 13th and 14th. We’ll be incentivizing response at the conference with a free raffle of artwork by Angie Klein Art out of Plant City.

3) At the meeting - Jeremy Ansel, NRCS’ Acting District Conservationist at this time, as well as several new invitees from the environmental professional community will be joining us. Jeremy is normally headquartered in the NRCS Sarasota Office. He’ll be tabulating the results for the State Technical Committee.

Please fill out the survery and send back to use via email Link to Survey

Upcoming Local Working Group Meeting:

Date: May 19, 2025
Time: 6 PM - 7:30 PM
Location: FSGA Event Center 13138 Lewis Gallager Rd, Dover FL 33527

We look forward to hearing from as many of you as we can this year.