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H.R. 3844House118th Congress (2023-2025)In Committee

Sustainable Agriculture Research Act

Sponsored by Joe NeguseRep. Joe Neguse (D-CO)
Introduced June 6, 2023

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The Sustainable Agriculture Research Act amends the 1977 National Agricultural Research, Extension, and Teaching Policy Act to add a new goal for the Agriculture Advanced Research and Development Authority (AGARDA). It defines precision agriculture and directs AGARDA to support technologies that improve sustainability, climate resilience, carbon storage, water management, renewable energy, and conservation practices. The changes affect agricultural research programs and stakeholders involved in farming, research, and technology development.

Key Provisions

  • Adds a definition of “precision agriculture” that focuses on managing inputs with high spatial and temporal detail to improve efficiency and protect the environment.
  • Creates an additional AGARDA goal to advance sustainable agriculture through voluntary resilience solutions, including technologies that address extreme weather, drought and soil water capacity, long‑term carbon storage, renewable/biofuel energy, carbon‑sequestering conservation practices, and precision agriculture adoption.
  • Updates the statutory language in Section 1473H to incorporate the new goal and adjust subparagraph numbering accordingly.

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Referred to the Subcommittee on Conservation, Research, and Biotechnology.

Conservation, Research, and Biotechnology Subcommittee

July 28, 2023

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Introduced in House

June 6, 2023

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Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.

Agriculture Committee

June 6, 2023

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Referred to the Subcommittee on Conservation, Research, and Biotechnology.

Conservation, Research, and Biotechnology Subcommittee

July 28, 2023

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Introduced in HouseIssued June 6, 2023

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

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