Stacking Conservation Programs

This is Tim Hammerich of the Ag Information Network with your Farm of the Future Report.

Government agencies, non-profits and companies are all still offering conservation programs to reward farmers for more sustainable practices. While individual programs may not always pencil out on their own, there can be real value in potentially combining them. LandOption CEO Eric Dinger says helping farmers stack multiple programs can turn small opportunities into meaningful revenue.

Dinger… “ In any one area, there may be 40 to 70 different programs that can work for a landowner depending on what they're interested in doing—or a farmer, depending on what they're willing to change or not change. Our insight is that that person themselves should learn through using LandOption, how to stack those programs and kind of play the game differently. When I was selling my program, I was trying to convince somebody to sign up for one thing, and I would hear constantly, ‘The juice isn't worth the squeeze. I don't want to deal with the headache of a bunch of paperwork and having new people on my property.’ Well, that's still the case. Most individual programs aren't worth it by themselves, but if you can stack a few of them and play the game right. In the Midwest, we're $78 an acre on average to the farm. That becomes a little bit more worth the time and headache, especially if our LandOption people are actually going to just do the work for you of handling the paperwork and handling the back and forth with the program. And so in many ways, what LandOption does is it takes the program headache off of the farmer or off of the producer.”

Learn more about LandOption at landoption.com.