By Ryan Hanrahan
Agri-Pulse’s Steve Davies reported that “the Trump administration is launching a $700 million initiative, potentially supplemented with corporate funding, to help farmers adopt regenerative agriculture practices.”
“In an announcement at USDA (yesterday) morning, Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins said the funding for the pilot project would be delivered ‘through existing programs our farmers already know and already trust,’ which Natural Resources Conservation Service Chief Aubrey Bettencourt specified would be the Environmental Quality Incentives Program and the Conservation Stewardship Program,” Davies reported. “‘It’ll be the same application that our farmers know already,’ Bettencourt said. ‘The difference is, they’ll be able to apply for multiple practices on a single application.'”
“She added that ‘what’s important about that is, it ties back to that whole-farm plan, the idea being that we’re going to look at all of the resource concerns on the property at one time, instead of drive-by conservation, where we’re only looking at maybe soil health here, and maybe in a few years, we’re going to look at water management,'” Davies reported.