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First incorporated into a farm bill in 1985, the conservation title is what some would consider the original Green New Deal. Its voluntary conservation initiatives give farmers and ranchers flexibility to adopt practices in a market-based approach.
Farmers and ranchers are already good stewards of water and land, but the 2018 farm bill, the Agriculture Improvement Act of 2018, provided expanded conservation programs that could increase conservation initiatives. The goal is to improve water quality and wildlife habitats and populations, protecting natural resources and providing many other benefits. The conservation title of the 2018 farm bill spends $60 billion of the $867 billion of mandatory funding required for conservation programs over 10 years, equal to 7% of the bill’s total projected mandatory spending in that timeframe.
NRCS Conserving and Restoring America the Beautiful report promises voluntary efforts on private lands.
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In pursuit of the Biden administration’s national conservation goal of conserving at least 30% of the nation’s lands and waters by 2030, key members of the Biden cabinet unveiled its Conserving and Restoring America the Beautiful Plan offering insight on the role of working lands and strengthening conservation efforts over the next 10 years to reach the goal.
On January 27, 2021, President Joe Biden signed Executive Order 14008, Tackling the Climate Crisis at Home and Abroad, which launched an all-of-government effort to confront climate change, repower America’s economy with clean energy and create millions of jobs. In that order, he directed the Department of Interior, USDA and Commerce Department to work together to develop recommendations on how the nation could pursue a goal of conserving at le
iStock Getty Images Congress urged to double investment in farm bill conservation programs in effort to reward climate smart actions.
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Every five years, the discussion over the farm bill baseline determines the level of resources for not only traditional farm programs under Title 1, but also the conservation title. Depending on the fiscal outlook, those levels sometimes require Congress to maintain the same baseline or find “savings” by spending less over the 10-year baseline if the farm bill was implemented for 10 years.
Action this year on the climate and infrastructure bill represents the best opportunity in decades to meet farmer demand for conservation programs.
The Biden-Harris administration, May 6, 2021, released a report to launch its “America the Beautiful” initiative to conserve 30% of U.S. lands and water by 2030, and promised that lands in agricultural production would be part of the effort.
White House National Climate Adviser Gina McCarthy, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack, Interior Secretary Deb Haaland, Commerce Secretary Gina Raimundo and Council on Environmental Quality Chair Brenda Mallory all participated in a joint telephone news conference announcing the launch of the initiative.
McCarthy said the initiative would last for 10 years and would begin with the establishment of an interagency working group, led by the U.S. Geological Survey, the Natural Resources Conservation Service and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.