“When you analyze the funding of $856 billion, spent over a 10-year period, that is a lot of money currently going to continue our problem,” Makepeace says, adding that traditional farmland generates upwards of 5.6 tons of wasted topsoil per acre, per year. The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) is the second largest budget behind the Department of Defense. “It’s a starting point that’s absolutely essential.” Reallocating funding to regenerate farmlands “We believe that would make an insane difference in what the landscape of this country is, and then the trajectory of how many more farmers will be supported to take this on,” says Finian Makepeace, cofounder of Kiss the Ground. And as the renewal and revision approaches next year, Kiss the Ground’s board wants to increase those subsidies to 3-5%, which can be done by reprioritizing current funding. Of the $867 billion allocated in 2018, only about 1% of that currently subsidizes educational, renewable, and regenerative solutions. In a congressional hearing on September 14, 2022, chairman of the House Agriculture Committee Congressman David Scott said, “ opened my eyes to much of what I was only dimly aware.” This common reaction is one that Kiss the Ground, the nonprofit of the same name, and the bipartisan coalition it stewards, called Regenerate America, hope to harness to ensure robust support for regenerative agriculture in the next Farm Bill and beyond.Įvery five years, Congress analyzes funds put toward national agriculture, food aid, nutrition, conservation, and forestry policy.
Or something far more-like influencing the United States Farm Bill.
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