Earn More for

Your Acres      

New Enrollment Areas Now Open for 2024!

Financial and Agronomic Support to Begin or Expand Row Crop Conservation Practices 

Cover Crops:

Protect soil from erosion, suppress weeds, improve nutrient cycling, and enhance soil organic matter.

Reduced/No-Till:

Improve soil structure, moisture retention, and reduce erosion.

Extended Crop Rotations:

Promote biodiversity, improve soil health, nutrient cycling, and ecosystem resiliency.

And More:

Other in-field conservation practices that produce positive outcomes

New Enrollment Areas Now Open for 2024!

Sustainable farming practices benefit soil health, water quality, and overall ecosystem resilience. Our program offers incentives for implementing new or expanded on-farm conservation practices that produce environmental outcomes. Farmers enrolled in our program earned an average of $33 per acre in 2023. Eligible farmland enrollment areas have expanded for 2024. Create an account and get started with your free estimate today!

Don’t see your state or county included in the map? We continue to scale up our work with farmers through new partnerships and are exploring several new geographic regions. Use the button below to add your name to our interested farmer list or contact us to learn more about bringing the Soil and Water Outcomes Fund to your area.

1-YEAR CONTRACTS

AVERAGE
$33 PER ACRE
PAYMENT
IN 2023

50% PAID
PRIOR TO
VERIFICATION

NO LIMITS
ON ACRES
ENROLLED

Key Points of Differentiation for Farmers

Beyond Cost Share

Farmers want to be good stewards of the land, but agricultural conservation has not always been rewarded with appropriate financial incentives. We provide payments to farmers and landowners that go well beyond the scale of existing public or private incentive programs.

Farmer Focused

Our mission is to build environmental and economic sustainability in agriculture. As a subsidiary of the Iowa Soybean Association, SWOF is governed by a board of farmers. We don’t sell a product, input, or service that farmers don’t need, can’t pay for, or isn’t proven.

Stacking Benefits

The benefits of agricultural conservation extend well beyond the farm. By leveraging markets for ecosystem services like carbon, water, and biodiversity. we create significant farmer value by combining multiple positive environmental outcomes into a single transaction.

Are you thinking of implementing a practice change?

About the Soil and Water Outcomes Fund

The Soil and Water Outcomes Fund provides financial incentives directly to farmers who begin or expand on-farm conservation practices that yield positive environmental outcomes such as carbon sequestration, emission reductions and water quality improvement. We provide new market opportunities and revenue streams for farmers through partnerships with public and private organizations.

As an inset program, we help our partners invest in the resiliency of their supply chain and achieve sustainability goals, such as scope 3 greenhouse gas emissions

We utilize an outcomes-based approach to reduce risk and increase cost efficiency for our partners and stack together the multiple environmental outcomes from agricultural practices to deliver substantial per-acre payments to farmers.

The Soil and Water Outcomes Fund is managed by AgOutcomes, a subsidiary of the Iowa Soybean Association.

Our Impact

   462,000   

metric tons of greenhouse gasses sequestered

 6,064,000 

lbs. of Nitrogen prevented from leaving enrolled fields

   352,000   

lbs. of Phosphorus prevented from leaving enrolled fields

   $17M+   

in payments made to farmers since 2021

  540,000+ 

acres enrolled since 2021

 16 STATES 

impacted by our work

Our Growing List of Partners

Hear from SWOF Farmers, Partners, and Advocates

  • “Soil health is the number one priority here. Everything we farm, whether we own it or rent it, we want to improve the ground for the next generation…I chose your program because I liked the way it was designed and set up, but you are also easy to work with. No hiccups whatsoever.”

    — Dan Glandorf, Iowa Farmer, Soil and Water Outcomes Fund participant

  • “Soil health is a long-term investment. The Soil and Water Outcomes Fund puts farmers and landowners at the center, because if these solutions work for them, they will scale. Cargill is excited to be involved in the Soil and Water Outcomes Fund and to demonstrate how farmers can help address some of humanity’s biggest challenges.”

    — Ryan Sirolli, Global Row Crop Sustainability Director, Cargill

  • “The program is simple, straightforward, and you know where you stand with payments and the opportunity before they leave. It doesn’t get any easier than this.”

    — Erin Marlow, co-owner and lead agronomist at Milne Dinsdale Seed