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The GCSA represents a significant opportunity for business to harness the economic and environmental potential of improved land management, and recognizes the vital role USDA can have in providing meaningful infrastructure to enable US farmers, ranchers and foresters to access private sector capital and empower new market development.

By focusing, beyond carbon, on a broader ecosystem services market approach, and standardizing monitoring, reporting and verification (MRV) protocols, this Committee can ensure the GCSA does not miss the mark on this enormous opportunity to support soil health and climate-resilient agriculture.

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The Senate today passed a $3.5 trillion budget resolution as part of the President's infrastructure agenda, which would give $135 billion to the agriculture committee to allocate over the next 10 years. We're calling on Congress to use these funds to double the investment in USDA conservation programs and double technical assistance funding to help producers build a soil health-centered, climate-smart agriculture.

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It is essential to acknowledge that on-farm resilience is at the core of how we ensure the stability and reliability of our agricultural supply chain, and that soil health, in turn, is at the center of on-farm resilience.

USDA has an opportunity to increase the resilience of our suppliers and encourage our growers and livestock producers to adopt soil health practices in order to de-risk our national food, fuel and fiber supply chains through non-legislative actions that can be initiated by setting agency priorities and enacting the following concrete recommendations.

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Land Core and 450+ businesses and organizations have urged Congress to invest $200 billion into a more resilient US agriculture through the President's infrastructure package. Thanks to all who signed on to this critical initiative, and please continue to share the letter with your networks and Members of Congress. We cannot let US ag be left out of a major infrastructure and jobs act.

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There’s a unique opportunity at hand for organizations (and individuals) invested in soil health to support getting agriculture its fair share of the President’s proposed $2.2 trillion infrastructure package. Join a growing group of legislators, organizations & businesses in calling for Congress to prioritize climate-resilient agriculture now.

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USDA has the opportunity to transform how we support our producers in their transition to a more climate-resilient and regenerative agriculture system in the U.S.

In particular, there is enormous opportunity to advance critical infrastructure for the scaled adoption of soil health practices––resulting in production agriculture that reduces risk and is more profitable, productive and ecologically-sound––through non-legislative actions that can be initiated by setting agency priorities and enacting the following concrete recommendations.

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With the arrival of Earth Day, there has been a flurry of legislative activity in the US Congress, including some major proposals that impact soil health and agriculture.

We are thrilled to see some of Land Core’s key messages incorporated into a number of bills, with language supported by both parties and in both chambers! Read on for a recap of “need to know” bills.

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Soil Health is a non-partisan, keystone issue that provides the common ground to move America forward.

These executive, legislative, and agency recommendations are designed to ensure the incoming administration has clear guidance on how to take bold action in advancing soil health to build a more resilient and profitable US agricultural system.

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Land Core submitted comments to the first hearing on soil health in the 116th Congress that helped to shape the direction of this important moment for both Congress and USDA.

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