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Before Requesting an Estimate, Please Confirm Your Eligibility

To ensure you qualify for our program, please review the following criteria:

  1. Field Location

    Are your fields located within the enrollment area highlighted on the map?

  2. Practice Change

    Are you willing to adopt at least one new conservation practice in each field you wish to enroll from the list of typical qualifiers below?

Tillage Reduction:

  • If you’re ready to reduce your tillage to strip-till, vertical till, no-till, or a combination of these practices, you qualify.

  • If you’re already using reduced tillage methods and want to extend these practices across your entire crop rotation, you qualify.

Cover Crops:

  • If you’re ready to add or enhance the use of cover crops, you qualify.

Extended Crop Rotation:

  • If you’re prepared to incorporate perennial crops into your rotation, you qualify.

If you answer “yes” to question 1 and to at least one qualifier in section 2, you are eligible for our program!

Farmer enrollment is currently closed, but you can still join the waitlist for our upcoming enrollment season. Please click the button below to create an account on our system, and a member of our staff will be in touch. We look forward to working with you!

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Helpful Tips to Get Started

After creating an account on our farmer enrollment platform, a member of our staff will be in touch to see if you need any help inputting your farm data. As you get started, it’s helpful to have the following info ready to ensure the payment estimation and contracting process moves as quickly and as accurately as possible:

  • FSA maps or your FSA farm, tract, and field numbers for the fields you’d like to enroll

  • Your subsidiary print

To generate accurate payment estimates, we ask for 3-5 years of historical and projected farm management information. This will include crop and field information such as planting dates, crop rotations, fertilization rates, seeding type and rates, row spacing, yield goal, tillage type, residue management, manure applications, and other necessary field level operational data.

But what do you do with my farm’s data? We believe that you are the owner of the Data that originates from your farm, device, or equipment. We will never sell it. Learn more from our Data and Security Policy.

How our Farmer Enrollment and Payment Process Works

  • STEP 1:

    Use our farmer web portal to create an account, map your field boundaries, and enter baseline and future cropping system information.

  • STEP 2:

    Review the proposed payment offering emailed to you within a few days after data submission and decide if you wish to continue and participate.

  • STEP 3:

    E-sign the contract emailed to you to confirm your participation in the Soil and Water Outcomes Fund. An initial 50% of the contract is paid prior to verification.

  • STEP 4:

    Receive technical assistance from Soil and Water Outcomes Fund field program representatives as needed to implement conservation practices.

  • STEP 5:

    Receive the remaining 50% payment after your farm’s environmental outcomes are measured and verified, typically in the spring. In 2024, participating farmers received an average payment of $33 per acre.