This is the second webinar in the 2026 NRCS ACEP-ALE Webinar Series, hosted by American Farmland Trust’s National Agricultural Land Network (NALN) and Farmland Information Center (FIC) in partnership with the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS).

In this session, NRCS EPD staff Matt Oliver, National Program Manager, Orie Winger, Natural Resources Specialist, and Danielle Balduff, Acting Director, explain how national and state ranking criteria are developed and translated into NRCS systems for application scoring, ranking, and selection.