AgWeb: Financial Discounts for Regenerative Ag

Originally published by AgWeb

Margy Eckelkamp, Farm Journal, October 12, 2023

“Pilot programs are exploring the opportunity to offer farmers improved financing terms based on their adoption of regenerative agriculture. The goal is to bring an expanded scale via financial incentives structured differently than dollars per acre for adoption.

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“We recognize there is missing infrastructure and missing economic incentives to support producers in the U.S. who are using soil health practices,” says Aria McLauchlan, co-founder of Land Core, a 501c3 organization with the mission to advance soil health policies and programs.

Working on the hypothesis that adopting such practices builds resiliency to extreme weather, Land Core is partnering with Compeer Financial to utilize the science to build programs and explore productivity impact on farmers who use cover crops, crop rotations and reduced tillage.

This is a new project built on a predictive risk model factoring in the benefits of soil health-focused management practices, while accommodating for the natural variability in agriculture.”

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