Central Valley Ag Promotes Sustainable Farming with Truterra
Sep 04, 2024
Central Valley Ag (CVA) has successfully participated in the recent round of Truterra programs. Truterra, the sustainability arm of Land O'Lakes, received the Climate Smart grant funds from the USDA to support retailers and farmers in adopting climate-smart practices like cover cropping and no-till.
These programs included the Early-Adopter Program and the USDA Financial Assistance Program. The Early-Adopter Program is for producers who have already made the transition to no till before 2015, while the USDA Financial Assistance Program is focused on helping producers add cover crops and/or transition conventional tillage practices to no-till or strip-till into their operation for 2025.
The available acre caps for both the Early-Adopter and USDA Financial Assistance programs were reached within hours of their launch on August 1st. CVA successfully enrolled over 16,000 acres in the Early-Adopter program and nearly 7,000 acres in the USDA Financial Assistance Program, which will result in approximately $1 million in benefits returning to CVA growers.
“We are very excited about the overwhelming response to these Truterra programs,” said James Banahan, Conservation Agronomist for CVA. “These programs provide valuable financial support to our producers as they implement sustainable farming practices that benefit both their operations and the environment.”
The Early-Adopter Program offered a one-time payment of $25 per acre, while the USDA Financial Assistance Program provided a one-time payment of $100 per acre.
CVA anticipates another round of Truterra programs to be available later this fall or early winter but does not yet have definitive dates. To maximize their chances of participating, producers are encouraged to update their acre boundaries in the Truterra portal.
Central Valley Ag is excited to provide these programs to its producers to continue practicing sustainable farming.
To learn more about these programs and how to get involved, please reach out to your local CVA Agronomist.
