Regenerative Pilot Program
From the Ag Information Network, I’m Bob Larson. The USDA recently announced a new Regenerative Pilot Program to enhance practices like improving soil health, water quality, and long-term productivity.
Gayle Barry, the Montana State Conservationist for the Natural Resources Conservation Service, highlights the incentivizing of new regenerative practices and how it will provide insight into producers’ operations …
BARRY … “The basic goal is to make our natural resources more vibrant, more healthy. We’re going to be focused on soil health and natural resiliency. Folks need to take a soil test before, and at the end of the contract they’ll have information about the difference they made on their land.”
The Program allows producers to utilize existing USDA programs but simplifies the applications into an easy, one-application process …
BARRY … “So, we’ll be offering this program, this Regenerative Ag Pilot, for people to come in. It’ll be a singe application and it’s going to draw from our existing programs, our environmental quality incentives program, EQUIP, and our conservation stewardship programs, CSP. So, the most important thing is our farmers and ranchers should come into the local office and sign up. It’s going to available to all landowners in Montana on all resource concerns.”
Learn more about the Regenerative Pilot Program in your state, at www.nrcs.usda.gov.
