The passage of the Growing Climate Solutions Act (GCSA) in the Senate last week reflects the growing recognition of the essential, positive role our agricultural producers will play in coming climate mitigation strategies. This month, we share a policy memo outlining how recognizing the risk-mitigation value of soil health could unlock the pathway to carbon markets, while addressing several persistent issues with equity and access.
Read MoreWe’re thrilled to announce that Compeer Financial (the third-largest cooperative in the Farm Credit System, with over $25 billion under management) will be partnering on the development of the Land Core Risk Model. Read on to learn the impact this will bring to the project, and catch additional policy wins & opportunities.
Read MoreWith Spring in full swing, we are wishing our farmer and rancher friends across the country the very best during one of the busiest times of year. It has been an equally action-packed month in Congress, with multiple opportunities emerging to advance soil health. Read on for federal policy highlights, our comments to USDA on risk mitigation as an essential approach to incentivizing soil health, and more.
Read MoreRisk modeling news, policy updates, and ways you can get involved in building soil health. We hope you are as excited as we are for the emergence of Spring, bringing with it new life and new opportunities!
Read MoreRead the February edition of our monthly newsletter for risk model project updates, a new bill tracker resources tab and alert list sign-up, review of the first House Ag Committee hearing, events, news and more!
Read MoreWith a new year comes a new Administration, a shifting policy landscape, and an incredible range of opportunities to advance soil health! Explore our updated federal soil health policy tracker, register for upcoming events, and more!
Read MoreWe wanted to take a moment to wish you a wonderful holiday season. We hope this season brings you time to celebrate family, community and our common connections, whether near or far.
Read MoreDuring this unprecedented moment of awareness and interest in soil health and regenerative agriculture, Land Core remains laser focused on advancing concrete policies and building missing infrastructure that will translate momentum into lasting, systemic change. Help us continue to do this work.
Read MoreCatch up on our risk modeling work, growing team, and policy recommendations for the incoming Biden-Harris administration and share yours as we strengthen our collective commitments to transforming our food and agricultural system.
Read MoreA recap of our YTD 2020 highlights, including: Policy News, Sneak Peek: Land Core's Newest & Biggest Initiative Yet, Organization Updates
Read MoreWe hope this finds you well and warm.
Today is not only Giving Tuesday; it also happens to be the first birthday of Land Core’s official non-profit status! (We became a California public benefit corporation on Dec 3. 2018)
Help us build on the work we’ve achieved thus far, expand our small but mighty team, and launch us into the new decade.
Here are some of our highlights from an incredible 2019:
Built a broad coalition and passed language in the House FY20 Ag-Appropriations Bill to create an Outcomes-Verified Soil Health Program within UDSA-NRCS
Led implementation of the new Soil Health Demonstration Trials with USDA-NRCS
Dear friends and colleagues,
We've been super busy here as you might imagine! As most of you know, the Farm Bill finally passed last week when we were in DC for meetings. While there's always more work to be done, from our perspective, it's a reasonable bill with some real wins for soil health.
We wanted to give you the news that although our amendment (to create an Outcomes-Verified Program) did not make it into the Farm Bill, the "Soil Health Demonstration Pilot Project" that we were also championing did get through... and we have a lot of support to get our language added down the line. Thank you and congratulations to all of you who signed our letter of support
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