Regenerative pilot program

At Agriculture Department regenerative pilot program has two focal points, as explained by Undersecretary for Farm Production and Conservation Richard Fordyce. Speaker 2: One, we're focusing on either maintaining or improving the characteristics of soil health. And then the other thing is the farmers, ranchers, landowners that enroll in the region pilot program. We're going to look more at whole farm conservation planning. Speaker 1: And both areas are receiving additional resources, financial assistance from $700 million to $1 billion in this fiscal year. In addition, through the Natural Resources Conservation Service. Speaker 2: With anything that we do at NRCs, there is a component of technical assistance. And then once that's decided through technical assistance, then we look at what does that financial assistance part of it going to look like? We did actually announce the first version back in late 2025, and then really kind of administered it throughout fiscal year 2026. So we've got a little experience. Folks are starting to understand and see how it could work, you know, on their farms. And certainly there's been a lot of interest. We obligated all of the dollars in 2026, and we're pretty sure we're going to obligate all the dollars in 2027. So if you're thinking about the regen pilot program and participating in that probably ought to reach out sooner rather than later.