Earn More for
Your Acres
New Enrollment Areas Now Open for 2024!
Financial and Agronomic Support to Begin or Expand Row Crop Conservation Practices
Cover Crops:
Protect soil from erosion, suppress weeds, improve nutrient cycling, and enhance soil organic matter.
Reduced/No-Till:
Improve soil structure, moisture retention, and reduce erosion.
Extended Crop Rotations:
Promote biodiversity, improve soil health, nutrient cycling, and ecosystem resiliency.
And More:
Other in-field conservation practices that produce positive outcomes
New Enrollment Areas Now Open for 2024!
Sustainable farming practices benefit soil health, water quality, and overall ecosystem resilience. Our program offers incentives for implementing new or expanded on-farm conservation practices that produce environmental outcomes. Farmers enrolled in our program earned an average of $33 per acre in 2023. Eligible farmland enrollment areas have expanded for 2024. Create an account and get started with your free estimate today!
Don’t see your state or county included in the map? We continue to scale up our work with farmers through new partnerships and are exploring several new geographic regions. Use the button below to add your name to our interested farmer list or contact us to learn more about bringing the Soil and Water Outcomes Fund to your area.
1-YEAR CONTRACTS
AVERAGE
$33 PER ACRE
PAYMENT
IN 2023
50% PAID
PRIOR TO
VERIFICATION
NO LIMITS
ON ACRES
ENROLLED
Key Points of Differentiation for Farmers
Beyond Cost Share
Farmers want to be good stewards of the land, but agricultural conservation has not always been rewarded with appropriate financial incentives. We provide payments to farmers and landowners that go well beyond the scale of existing public or private incentive programs.
Farmer Focused
Our mission is to build environmental and economic sustainability in agriculture. As a subsidiary of the Iowa Soybean Association, SWOF is governed by a board of farmers. We don’t sell a product, input, or service that farmers don’t need, can’t pay for, or isn’t proven.
Stacking Benefits
The benefits of agricultural conservation extend well beyond the farm. By leveraging markets for ecosystem services like carbon, water, and biodiversity. we create significant farmer value by combining multiple positive environmental outcomes into a single transaction.
Are you thinking of implementing a practice change?
About the Soil and Water Outcomes Fund
The Soil and Water Outcomes Fund provides financial incentives directly to farmers who begin or expand on-farm conservation practices that yield positive environmental outcomes such as carbon sequestration, emission reductions and water quality improvement. We provide new market opportunities and revenue streams for farmers through partnerships with public and private organizations.
As an inset program, we help our partners invest in the resiliency of their supply chain and achieve sustainability goals, such as scope 3 greenhouse gas emissions.
We utilize an outcomes-based approach to reduce risk and increase cost efficiency for our partners and stack together the multiple environmental outcomes from agricultural practices to deliver substantial per-acre payments to farmers.
The Soil and Water Outcomes Fund is managed by AgOutcomes, a subsidiary of the Iowa Soybean Association.