State Health Soil Policy Map

The US state soil health policy map is a crowd-sourced policy tracker designed to support the growth of healthy soil and related policies by sharing frameworks and lessons learned.

Why adopt Healthy soil policy for your state?

Build up soil carbon

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More fertile soil

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Better water holding capacity

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26 out of 50 states

Implemented soil health programs through existing statute as of Feb 10, 2024

51%

These 26 states include 51% is U.S. farm acreage (502,948,364 of 880,100,848 acres, based upon 2022 National Agricultural Statistics Service Agricultural Census)

62.9%

These 26 states house 62.9% of U.S. state population (208,044,827 of 330,759,736 people, based upon 2020 Census)

Of these 27 states, all create or empower state agencies to create soil health programs with incentives for implementation, except: Hawaii (in 2022 legislation passed to create program, but vetoed), and Nebraska (technical, training and legal assistance program, but not incentives)

List of states that have created state agencies

List of states that empowered state agencies to create soil health programs

ArizonaNew JerseyMinnesota
LouisianaPennsylvaniaNew Mexico
NewHampshireSouth DakotaWest Virginia

Note that though many of these states empower state agencies to create soil health programs, there are efforts to pass legislation to put such programs in state statutes and to establish reliable funding for those programs. Of the bills filed in 2023, the bills in 9 states (Hawaii, Iowa, Illinois, Kentucky, Michigan, Montana, New Jersey, Nevada, and Oregon) create a soil health program or add soil health to existing programs.  Also, Kansas has effectively created and is funding the Kansas Soil Health Initiative in the annual budget, but has not yet established the program in statute.

Meet our team

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“Nerds of earth have helped us acquire funding for farming”

Annie Steiner

Farmer, California