Building healthy soil across Minnesota is key to creating resiliency in the face of a changing climate and is also incredibly important in supporting clean water. We all want clean drinking water for our families and communities.
Right now, bills are being heard in the Minnesota Legislature that could affect drinking water throughout the state and help farmers adopt more soil health practices. Please sign on to the petition to show your support for farmers, for soil health, and for clean water in Minnesota!
Two bills are being considered in the House regarding soil health (and two versions of the same bills in the Senate). One is to allocate grants for soil-health-related equipment to individual farmers and Soil and Water Conservation Districts (SWCDs). The other supports a Southeast Regional Groundwater Protection and Soil Health Initiative in Minnesota. In this second bill, funding would go to SWCDs in the Southeast region and would be spent on projects aligned with the Olmsted County soil health program, which provides funding for cover cropping and haying/pasturing.
