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Financial and Agronomic Support to Begin or Expand Row Crop Conservation Practices

Improve soil structure, moisture retention, and reduce erosion.

Reduced/No-Till:

Cover Crops:

Protect soil from erosion, suppress weeds, improve nutrient cycling, and enhance soil organic matter.

Extended Crop Rotations:

Promote biodiversity, improve soil health, nutrient cycling, and ecosystem resiliency.

And More:

Other in-field conservation practices that produce positive environmental outcomes.

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Farmer enrollment is currently closed, but you can still join the waitlist for next spring. Create an account on our enrollment platform today to take the first step toward earning more for your acres while enhancing your farm’s resiliency. Our process is simple and transparent, and we’ll notify you of the next steps as soon as enrollment reopens. Use the button below to get started!

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1-YEAR CONTRACTS

NO LIMITS
ON ACRES
ENROLLED

AVERAGE
$33 PER ACRE
PAYMENT
IN 2024

50% PAID
PRIOR TO
VERIFICATION

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.

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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.

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Our Impact

462,000

metric tons of greenhouse gasses sequestered

6,064,000

lbs. of Nitrogen prevented from leaving enrolled fields

352,000

lbs. of Phosphorus prevented from leaving enrolled fields

$17M+

in payments made to farmers since 2021

540,000+

acres enrolled since 2021

16 STATES

impacted by our work

Our Growing List of Partners

Hear from SWOF Farmers, Partners, and Advocates

“I’m making fewer herbicide passes with the cover crops, and I’ve seen improved water infiltration and reduced nutrient loss from those covers combined with reduced tillage. We’re hoping to continue to see reduced erosion. Based on what we’ve seen after only a few years, we are committed to continuing and expanding this work.”
— Jake Stricklin, participating Soil and Water Outcomes Fund farmer from Illinois
“With the help of SWOF, we’ve been able to make more widespread reductions in our tillage. We’ve also been experimenting with cover crops. Together all these efforts are helping us become more sustainable and resilient as weather patterns change, but they also save us time and money in labor.”
— Grant Allyn, participating Soil and Water Outcomes Fund farmer from Indiana
“Being a smaller producer, I'm always thinking of how we can advance and do things a little differently to be more efficient. When you don't have to run a chisel across the field and you don’t have to soil finish it, that makes a difference!”
— Lillie Beringer-Crock, participating Soil and Water Outcomes Fund farmer from Iowa
“Soil health is a long-term investment. The Soil and Water Outcomes Fund puts farmers and landowners at the center, because if these solutions work for them, they will scale. Cargill is excited to be involved in the Soil and Water Outcomes Fund and to demonstrate how farmers can help address some of humanity’s biggest challenges.”
— Ryan Sirolli, Global Row Crop Sustainability Director, Cargill
“Over the years, our soil health and organic matter are slowly creeping up. We are using less and less commercial fertilizers while getting more and more yields. So, I can tell you that what we are doing is working because I'm able to raise more yield with less input.”
— Travis Milne, participating Soil and Water Outcomes Fund farmer from Missouri
“We’ve been delighted working with your team. It’s just straightforward. With all the cost-share and learning we’ve been able to do, we’ve become more efficient over time, and I’d like to continue improving. I want to get where I can do things earlier in the season, maybe utilize aerial seeding.”
— Trent Brass, participating Soil and Water Outcomes Fund farmer from Illinois
“Soil health is the number one priority here. Everything we farm, whether we own it or rent it, we want to improve the ground for the next generation…I chose your program because I liked the way it was designed and set up, but you are also easy to work with. No hiccups whatsoever.”
— Dan Glandorf, participating Soil and Water Outcomes Fund farmer from Iowa
“The program is simple, straightforward, and you know where you stand with payments and the opportunity before they leave. It doesn’t get any easier than this.”
— Erin Marlow, co-owner and lead agronomist at Milne Dinsdale Seed