Agriculture Innovation Act of 2023
The Agriculture Innovation Act of 2023 (S 98) requires the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to collect and analyze voluntary farm-level data on conservation practices and farming methods to improve agricultural productivity, soil health, and ecosystem services like carbon sequestration. It mandates creating a secure data center to compile field-level data from farmers, researchers, and USDA agencies, while ensuring strong privacy protections that prohibit selling identifiable data and require aggregated reporting. The bill directs the USDA to develop free online tools for farmers showing how conservation practices impact yields and environmental outcomes, and to submit annual reports to Congress on data collection progress. This affects farmers and ranchers through voluntary data sharing and aims to help USDA better design programs that boost farm profitability and environmental benefits.
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Introduced Jan 26, 2023
Last action Jan 26, 2023
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Jan 26, 2023
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Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.
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Jan 26, 2023
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1 primary · 1 co-sponsor
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