Explore the expanded version of our Congressional Soil Health Bill Tracker, which highlights bills introduced into U.S. Congress that could have a significant impact on soil health and resilience.
Now featuring a bill summary, analysis, existing support and cosponsors, links to related materials, and the latest action in Congress for each bill.
Read MoreLand Core contributes key recommendations to new Berkeley Food Institute report highlighting the growing interest and opportunities for public and private sector investment to support a rapid transition to regenerative agriculture.
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 MoreLand Core presented soil health policy recommendations directly to the Biden-Harris Transition: Agency Review Team for the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) during a vital transitional moment for US agriculture.
Read MoreWhile much of the focus has been on emerging carbon markets, measuring and rewarding soil carbon sequestration has significant challenges. Land Core’s work is offering a new way to bring farmers more immediate incentives; based not on quantifying carbon, but rather quantifying risk.
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 MoreSoil 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.
Read MoreLand Core Co-Founder and Executive Director, Aria McLauchlan, spoke on the Adaptation & Mitigation Synergies in Agriculture panel of the UC Davis October 2020 Catalyzing Adaptive and Resilient Food Systems workshop, addressing the central role of soil health in building adaptive and resilient food systems.
Read MoreLand Core submits comments to the United States Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Hearing to Review S. 3894, The Growing Climate Solutions Act (GCSA) of 2020.
This bipartisan bill recognizes the economic and environmental potential of improved land management, and the role of USDA in providing infrastructure to enable US producers to access private sector capital.
Read MoreWe’re pleased to introduce our new and improved bill tracker! This major update brings our tracker from a spreadsheet to an interactive tool with search and filtering features, available for use on desktop and mobile.
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
There is an ever-growing chorus of scientists, farmers, ranchers and businesses acknowledging healthy soil as one of the most effective tools to build resilience and mitigate the risks of flood and drought on agricultural land.
Read MoreIn response to the request for information from the House Select Committee on the Climate Crisis, Land Core recommends that Congress adopt the following suite of practical, non-partisan policies
Read MoreView the memo of recommendations submitted to NRCS-CIG regarding the implementation of the On-Farm Trials and Soil Health Demo Trials.
Read MoreLand Core submits comments to the Senate hearing on climate change and the agriculture sector. We focus on synergies in adaptation and mitigation, the importance of soil health in mitigating risk, and opportunities for Congress to create market-based incentives and infrastructure that will encourage more producers to focus proactively on building soil health.
Read MoreLand 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.
Read MoreDear 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
Read MoreWe are proud to announce that Aria McLauchlan, Co-Founder & Executive Director, of Land Core has been selected as a 2018 Stone Barns Exchange Fellow.
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