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. Click on a state and read below to learn more!
- Passed through 2025
- Pending in 2025
- Activity through 2025
- Interest through 2025
As a collaborative and “living” site, this map is updated by volunteers as policy is conceived, created, and moves forward.
Information on each state is maintained by a “State Curator” or group of curators who serve to keep the space information based, clean and functional. If you are interested in adding information to the resource list below, or to a state page, please
mail the state curator at <state>@healthysoilspolicy.org (ex: newmexico@healthysoilspolicy.org).
State-by-State Policy Information
Alabama – Alaska – Arizona – Arkansas – California – Colorado – Connecticut – Delaware – Florida – Georgia – Hawaii – Idaho – Illinois – Indiana – Iowa – Kansas – Kentucky – Louisiana – Maine – Maryland – Massachusetts – Michigan – Minnesota – Mississippi – Missouri – Montana – Nebraska – Nevada – New Hampshire – New Jersey – New Mexico – New York – North Carolina – North Dakota – Ohio – Oklahoma – Oregon – Pennsylvania – Rhode Island – South Carolina – South Dakota – Tennessee – Texas – Utah – Vermont – Virginia – Washington – West Virginia – Wisconsin – Wyoming – Puerto Rico
Legislative Status Update
Through February 24, 2025, 27 states have passed Healthy Soils legislation, and Pennsylvania is implementing a Soil Health Program through existing statute. These 28 states include 63.7% of U.S. farm acreage (560,549,684 of 880,100,848 acres, based upon 2022 National Agricultural Statistics Service Agricultural Census), and 63.2% of U.S. state population (209,142,612 of 330,759,736 people, based upon 2020 Census).
Of these 28 states (AZ, CA, CO, CT, HI, IL, LA, MA, MI, MD, ME, MN, MT, NE, NH, NJ, NM, NV, NY, OK, OR, PA, SD, TX, UT, VT, WA, and WV), all have established— or authorized state agencies to establish—soil health programs with implementation incentives, except:
Hawaii (in 2022 legislation passed to create program, but vetoed), and
Nebraska (technical, training and legal assistance program, but not incentives)
The states that have created soil health programs are:
California, Colorado, Connecticut, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Minnesota, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Mexico, New York, Oklahoma, Oregon, Texas, Utah, and Washington
The states that have empowered state agencies to create soil health programs are:
Arizona, Louisiana, Montana, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Nevada, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, Vermont, and West 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 2024, the bills in 6 states (Hawaii, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Missouri, and New Jersey) 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.
Changes in Soil Health Policy from 2019 to 2025
Swipe or use the arrows below to see the evolution of Soil Health Policy in the United States
For more information on each state, visit the individual state Policy Information in the next section.
These maps reflect the progress of Soil Health Policies from 2019 through 2025. The green color represents a state that has enacted at least one soil health policy. If the name of the state is highlighted in blue, but the rest is green, it represents a new soil health bill pending during that year.
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Last Update: 01/12/2024
This project was produced by a collaboration of Tufts University, Soil4Climate, Nerds for Earth, and The Carbon Project at People Food & Land Foundation. Initial Funding was provided by Jena King.