Stay in the Loop: Farmers for Soil Health Enrollment Updates
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What is Farmers for Soil Health?
Farmers for Soil Health is a farmer-led program created by the United Soybean Board, National Pork Board, and National Corn Growers Association. Built by farmers, for farmers, the program supports the adoption of cover crops and no-till practices to improve profitability, strengthen soil health, and meet sustainability goals.
Through financial incentives, local technical advisors, and a Sustainability Marketplace, Farmers for Soil Health makes it easier for farmers to adopt and benefit from soil health practices. Now active across 20 states, Farmers for Soil Health is helping farmers build resilient operations and a stronger future for U.S. agriculture.
What’s In It For You?
Get paid to improve your soil
Farmers for Soil Health offers financial incentives to help offset the costs of planting cover crops, so you can try something new while setting your farm up for long-term profitability and resilience.
One-on-one support from local experts
You’ll have access to dedicated technical advisors who will work with you to choose cover crops tailored to your soil, climate, and farm goals.
Tap into new market opportunities
Enrolled farmers may gain access to a sustainability-focused marketplace, connecting you with buyers who prioritize soil health and regenerative practices. This may give you a competitive edge in tomorrow’s ag economy.
Uncover Incentives with Cover Crops
How It Works
- Sign up today → Join our waitlist by filling out the form above.
- Get notified → We’ll send you an alert as soon as enrollment opens and connect you with your local State Technical Advisor, where you can ask questions and see if the program is the right fit for your operation.
- Enroll and benefit → Access incentives, support, and new market opportunities.
Have Questions?
Which states are eligible to participate?
The following 20 states are eligible to participate in the Farmers for Soil Health AMP Partnership: Delaware, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, Tennessee, Virginia, and Wisconsin.
Can Farmers for Soil Health payments be stacked with other financial assistance opportunities?
Farmers for Soil Health Transition Incentive Payments (TIPs) can be stacked with other AMP project payments if they are paying for something other than the cover crop practice. FSH TIPs cannot be stacked with USDA NRCS cover crop cost-share payments, such as through the Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP). FSH TIPs can be stacked with other state or private (non-federal) incentives and cost-share opportunities.
How will farmers receive their payments?
The National Fish and Wildlife Foundation (NFWF) will issue payments to participating farmers. Payments are expected to be disbursed in the spring following planting of a cover crop the previous fall. Cover crop planting will be verified by remote sensing through the Farmers for Soil Health Measurement, Reporting and Verification (MRV) platform and self-certified by the farmer. Opportunities within the forthcoming sustainability marketplace will be paid based on information captured in the enrollment platform managed by DTN.
How will farmer data privacy be protected after enrollment?
Enrollment in the FSH program through DTN is built on a foundation of security and transparency. A key requirement is that farmers are in control of their data and can decide who may access it and how it can be used. For every offer, either Farmers for Soil Health or others from the private sector will transparently inform the farmer if their data will be shared or used by or with any third party. For the FSH AMP Partnership, any data a farmer provides will be used to ensure compliance with USDA and Farmers for Soil Health program requirements and for the measurement of carbon and other environmental impacts in the aggregate. This data will be anonymized and reported publicly only in aggregate. Specific farmer data associated with named individuals, addresses, collection points, etc., will not be sold, shared or distributed to any third parties without express permission from the farmer. Any third-party data sharing will be subject to a licensing agreement for disclosure to that party only.
What information will farmers be required to provide to sign up for payments?
- Participating farmers will need to self-certify the following information:
- Their USDA farm, tract and field numbers. Farmers without farm, tract and field numbers can obtain them from their local USDA Farm Service Agency field office.
- For Transition Incentive Payments (TIPs), farmers must verify that they are not concurrently receiving USDA NRCS cover crop payments on the same acres.
- Compliance with USDA Highly Erodible Land and Wetland Conservation requirements. Farmers will need an AD-1026 form on file with their local USDA office.
- They will plant cover crop acres enrolled in TIP according to state NRCS conservation practice standards for practice code 340 (cover crop), or an alternate practice standard pre-approved by USDA and Farmers for Soil
Health partners.
- Farmers will be required to use our enrollment platform’s map tool to identify the enrolled fields and confirm or edit field boundaries and acreage. They will also need to provide information necessary for payments, such as a W-9 tax form.
What Enrolled Farmers Say
Ryan Johnson, Farmers for Soil Health Technical Advisor and Enrolled Farmer
“My brother and I both enrolled in Farmers for Soil Health, so the biggest reason for enrolling in the program is not only to help get some cost-share potential to help offset some of the costs as you are transitioning into doing cover crops, but you get the technical assistance of someone who not only sees many examples of how cover crops works with growers around the area, but also has the hands-on knowledge of what I’ve done on my own farm. I also try to go above and beyond to make it as easy as possible for producers to sign up for the program. I try to stay organized and ask for things at appropriate times, but also do as much as I can to make it easier for the grower to get signed up or walk him through the process if there are questions.”
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