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Incentives for Producers

• Incentive payments for implementing regenerative land management practices:
  • Prescribed grazing and burning
  • Cover crop planting
  • Forage and range planting
  • Silvopasture
  • Upland wildlife habitat management
  • Riparian herbaceous cover
• Customized technical assistance
• Land and producer impact:
  • 360-plus producers
  • 3 million acres
  • $24 million in incentive payments to producers
  • $22 million in direct producer benefits
• Access to market premiums for beef and bison calves raised using regenerative land practices.

Measurement, Monitoring, Reporting and Verification

• Quantify carbon cycle and ecosystem benefits:
  • Soil carbon storage
  • Soil microbial community
  • Ruminant efficiency
  • Biodiversity (e.g., wildlife, insects, vegetation) monitoring
• Assess novel/lower-cost technologies for widespread use.
• Use data to calculate carbon storage associated with each practice.
• Producer interface will allow real-time visualization of land management efforts and guide future decisions.

Market Development

• Development of resilient beef and bison commodity markets that reward producers for the implementation of regenerative practices that also promote healthy soils with improved carbon storage — a marketable outcome in respective supply chains.
  • Beef approach: Development of supply shed soil health outcome approach that can reward producers for implementing practices that promote carbon storage and robust soils.
  • Bison approach: Development of a marketing strategy for bison raised on operations using regenerative practices and which can be traced through the supply chain.
• Instill confidence in beef and bison producers, consumers and stakeholders through data collected via measurement, monitoring reporting and verification (comprehensive research plan).
• Producer and market impact:
  • 85,000 head of beef/27,000 head of bison.
  • $9.5 million in premiums for beef and bison calves.