Sustainable Agriculture Research Act

Bill: 118-hr-3844
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Neguse, Joe [D-CO-2]
Introduced: 2023-06-06
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Agricultural conservation and pollution

Agricultural practices and innovations

Agricultural research

Air quality

Alternative and renewable resources

Atmospheric science and weather

Climate change and greenhouse gases

Farmland
Latest action: action_date: 2023-07-28
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Conservation, Research, and Biotechnology.

Summaries:
action_date: 2023-06-06
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p><b>Sustainable Agriculture Research Act</b></p> <p>This bill revises the goals of the Agriculture Advanced Research and Development Authority (AGARDA). </p> <p>Specifically, the bill expands the goals to require AGARDA to enhance the role of sustainable agriculture in innovative voluntary resilience solutions in the United States through the development of agricultural technologies that may address </p> <ul> <li>the impact of extreme weather on crop production;</li> <li>the effects of drought and the potential of building water holding capacity in soils on croplands and rangelands;</li> <li>the expansion of the potential for long-term carbon storage through sustainable agriculture;</li> <li>increased economic and practical feasibility for renewable and sustainable energy on farms and in the agriculture industry; </li> <li>increased voluntary adoption of conservation practices that sequester carbon and build on-farm climate resilience; and</li> <li>increased economic and practical feasibility for, and voluntary adoption of, precision agriculture technology.</li> </ul> <p>The bill defines <i>precision agriculture</i> as managing, tracking, or reducing crop or livestock production inputs (including seed, feed, fertilizer, chemicals, water, and time) at a heightened level of spatial and temporal granularity to improve efficiencies, reduce waste, and maintain environmental quality.</p>

tv_txt: I 118th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 3844 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES June 6, 2023 Mr. Neguse (for himself, Mr. Flood , Mr. Bacon , Mr. Guest , Mr. Vasquez , and Ms. Bonamici ) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Agriculture A BILL To amend the National Agricultural Research, Extension, and Teaching Policy Act of 1977 to provide for an additional goal of the Agriculture Advanced Research and Development Authority (AGARDA) to enhance the role of agriculture in innovative sustainability solutions.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Sustainable Agriculture Research Act . 2. Additional goal of AGARDA to enhance role of agriculture in innovative sustainability solutions Section 1473H of the National Agricultural Research, Extension, and Teaching Policy Act of 1977 ( 7 U.S.C. 3319k ) is amended— (1) in subsection (a), by adding at the end the following: (8) Precision agriculture The term precision agriculture means managing, tracking, or reducing crop or livestock production inputs (including seed, feed, fertilizer, chemicals, water, and time) at a heightened level of spatial and temporal granularity to improve efficiencies, reduce waste, and maintain environmental quality. ; and (2) in subsection (b)(2)— (A) in subparagraph (C), by striking and at the end; (B) by redesignating subparagraph (D) as subparagraph (E); and (C) by inserting after subparagraph (C) the following: (D) to enhance the role of sustainable agriculture (as defined in section 1404) in innovative voluntary resilience solutions in the United States through the development of agricultural technologies that may address— (i) the impact of extreme weather on crop production; (ii) the effects of drought and the potential of building water holding capacity in soils on crop and rangelands; (iii) the expansion of the potential for long-term carbon storage through sustainable agriculture; (iv) increased economic and practical feasibility for renewable and sustainable energy, including conventional and advanced biofuels, on farms and in the agriculture industry; (v) increased voluntary adoption of conservation practices that sequester carbon and build on-farm climate resilience; and (vi) increased economic and practical feasibility for, and voluntary adoption of, precision agriculture technology; and .