USDA Funding for Regenerative Agriculture

For this effort, USDA has allocated $700 million

to help conventional farmers o- off-ramp and

transition to regenerative agriculture.

And that

funding opportunity, th- those grant opportunities,

netted the biggest response in the history of the agency.

Over 60,000 people contacted USDA to make

inquiries,

26,000 applications. They've never seen anything like this

before.

Wow.

But we're seeing tremendous interest within the conventional

farming community, and they wanna transition because,

as you know, it, it helps the soils.

Yeah.

It put... It improves food-

Yes

... and makes the food so that they're dense with micronutrients,

and the

pesticides actually rob them of the micronutrients.

It protects the soils. The soils now, because they are

depleted of micronutrients, they can't absorb water, so it's

washing off. We only have 60 harvests left at this

rate, and the

farmers know that.

And also, they... It opens up foreign markets to them

that won't

take American produce 'cause the chemicals.

It raises their profits per acre. It

lowers the cost of inputs like chemicals.

And it keeps them healthier, and they want healthy soils and healthy

children