The Soil and Water Outcomes Fund (SWOF) and John Deere announce new collaboration, bringing an integration of field data to farmers participating in SWOF’s agricultural ecosystem services program.

The Soil and Water Outcomes Fund provides payment to farmers for environmental outcomes that result from implementing conservation practices.

The Soil and Water Outcomes Fund more than doubled farmer participation in 2023, enrolling over 300,000 acres of cropland across 14 states.

A group of companies called the Agricultural Climate Market Collaborative believes that lack of “transparency” is one of major road blocks to acceptance. To address transparency, the Collaborative developed eleven principles to guide carbon ecosystem marketers when forming these new contracts with growers.