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119-hr-5854119th CongressWALLET

Sustainable Agriculture Research Act

Sponsored By: Representative Neguse, Joe [D-CO-2]

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Summary

precision agriculture becomes a formal, named research priority for the Agriculture Advanced Research and Development Authority (AGARDA), pushing the agency to develop technologies that manage farm inputs at finer times and places and to boost climate and water resilience on farms. The change also adds a sustainable agriculture objective that targets technologies for extreme weather, drought, carbon storage, and on-farm energy solutions.

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  • Farmers and ranchers: More R&D will target tools to track and reduce use of seed, feed, fertilizer, chemicals, water, and time so farms can cut waste and improve resilience in the face of drought and extreme weather.
  • Researchers and technology developers: AGARDA must pursue six specified areas of innovation, including extreme weather impacts on crops, soil water holding capacity, long-term carbon storage through sustainable practices, farm-scale sustainable energy and biofuels, voluntary conservation practices that sequester carbon, and wider practical adoption of precision agriculture. The text aligns these goals with sustainable agriculture definitions in section 1404.
  • Environment and conservation: The bill directs attention to technologies that increase soil water capacity, expand carbon sequestration, and encourage voluntary conservation practices that build on-farm climate resilience.

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More support for farm technology

If enacted, this bill would add precision agriculture and sustainable agriculture as new objectives for AGARDA. The agency would be asked to support development of technologies that address: extreme-weather impacts on crops; drought and building soil water-holding capacity on croplands and rangelands; expanding long-term carbon storage through sustainable agriculture; making farm sustainable energy and biofuels more economically and practically feasible; increasing voluntary adoption of carbon-sequestering conservation practices that build on-farm climate resilience; and increasing the feasibility and voluntary adoption of precision agriculture technology. The bill would reference sustainable agriculture as defined in section 1404. The change is a policy direction and does not provide new funding or direct payments.

Sponsors & CoSponsors

Sponsor

Neguse, Joe [D-CO-2]

CO • D

Cosponsors

  • Rep. Flood, Mike [R-NE-1]

    NE • R

    Sponsored 10/28/2025

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