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A big thanks to each of you who supported our work on Giving Tuesday. Your support and encouragement is incredibly meaningful and helpful to us as a relatively small organization, and together, we’ve had a huge year helping to push the soil health movement forward. Wishing you well as many of us gather for the winter farm conference season.

We invite you to be part of our work in 2023 by giving this Giving Tuesday! Your gift will help us continue to be an innovative, consistent, pragmatic voice in D.C. and across the country. 

We hope you're enjoying the fall season. Here at Land Core, we’re excited to be growing our team - both internally, and by welcoming new collaborators to the risk model project. And our work is not done - we’re still hiring for a Senior Manager, Policy - see details within and apply. Read on for program updates, a new blog post, an upcoming speaking event, and ways to get involved.

September has been an enormous month for soil health and agriculture, from the first ever Congressional hearing explicitly on soil health and regenerative agriculture, to the Partnerships for Climate-Smart Commodities projects announcement, to attention turning toward implementation of $20 billion for conservation in the Inflation Reduction Act. As ever, soil health continues to create meaningful common ground amongst a diverse set of stakeholders.

With the Inflation Reduction Act officially signed into law this month, we are taking a moment to celebrate this incredible victory for both American farmers and our national soil health.

This month, we’ve put together an opportunity for farmers, a late summer reading list, and upcoming events and opportunities to connect.

It’s been a jam-packed July. In addition to some very promising advancements for soil health in the Inflation Reduction Act introduced last week, we’ve had some positive movement on a new soil health marker bill. Read on to see what’s keeping us busy and hopeful - as well as ways to get involved.

What a month it has been! Land Core team members, Harley and Katie, traveled to DC to support the first Regenerate America fly-in on June 15-16. We took some of the nation’s foremost soil health-focused farmers and coalition partners to meet with leading House and Senate Agriculture Committee members.

After nearly a year in the making, and with the support of many of you in this community, we were proud to announce the launch of Regenerate America™ campaign last week.

Land Core came on board at the very beginning of the campaign to help create the policy platform and help build the coalition that underpins this ambitious effort to ensure that the 2023 Farm Bill amplifies the voices of farmers and ranchers and shifts resources and support towards regenerative agriculture.

Policy memos, speaking & events, & your usual reading list.

Spring is in the air, seeds are in the ground, and your March news is here!

Policy announcements & opportunities for producers, engagement in appropriations & the 2023 Farm Bill, upcoming events & speaking, a roundup of advancements in soil health, & more!

We start the new year with optimism, resolve, and a heartfelt thank you for your generous support of Land Core’s work. Because of this community, we’re better positioned than ever to achieve our ambitious goals to advance soil health focused policy, risk modeling and education.

We’re thrilled to end the year on a high note, with some good news and quick updates. Thank you all for your support and partnership this year, and wishing you a wonderful holiday season!

This Giving Tuesday, join us in advancing policies and programs that will make the rapid adoption of soil health possible. Together, we can put healthy soil at the heart of thriving farms, businesses, communities and food systems.

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With the shaved-down Build Back Better Act reintroduced yesterday as a $1.75 trillion bill, we're happy to share that the provisions for climate-smart ag were left almost unchanged, delivering a historic $27.15 billion for USDA conservation programs - the biggest investment in conservation since the dust bowl! A big thanks & congratulations to so many of you for your advocacy. We’re not at the finish line yet, but we can see it from here.

Many of the big policy issues we have been discussing and sharing with you over the last few months are being decided on in the coming days. Thank you all for everything you’ve been doing to advance this work, and we will be watching closely to see where things land.

Policy updates, a new grant announcement, fall events, and more. We hope you can take the opportunity to reflect on the immense work done by our collective movement this summer to raise awareness about the need to build a resilient, soil health-focused US agriculture.

It has been another big week, and month, at Land Core as we have been working hard to ensure soil health and climate-resilient agriculture are included in the historic infrastructure legislation on the table in Washington.

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.