Sustainable Agriculture Research Act

The "Sustainable Agriculture Research Act" proposes to amend the National Agricultural Research, Extension, and Teaching Policy Act of 1977, specifically targeting the Agriculture Advanced Research and Development Authority (AGARDA). Its primary objective is to establish an additional goal for AGARDA: to enhance the role of agriculture in developing innovative voluntary resilience solutions within the United States. This new focus involves fostering agricultural technologies that address critical environmental and economic challenges. These include the impact of extreme weather on crop production, the effects of drought and building soil water holding capacity, and expanding long-term carbon storage through sustainable agriculture. Furthermore, the bill aims to increase the economic and practical feasibility for sustainable energy, including conventional and advanced biofuels, on farms and in the agriculture industry. It also seeks to promote the increased voluntary adoption of conservation practices that sequester carbon and build on-farm climate resilience, alongside the increased economic and practical feasibility for, and voluntary adoption of, precision agriculture technology, which is also defined within the bill.