Soil Health Program Amendments
- Jurisdiction:
- Utah
- Type:
- Incentives
- Last action:
- Feb 27, 2026
What this law has produced
73,043 acres
of Utah farmland reached by the soil-health program's one-on-one technical assistance
That's ≈ 87 Central Parks
Utah HB-66 (2026) amends the Utah Soil Health Program, the incentives-and-technical-assistance program the Legislature created in 2021 (HB-296) and that UDAF runs to help farmers and ranchers adopt soil-health practices such as no-till and cover cropping. Per UDAF's FY2023 Soil Health Program Interim Report, over its lifetime (Sept 2021-June 2023) the program's one-on-one technical assistance reached 74 individual producers representing an estimated 73,043 acres across 24 counties, generated 32 applications, and leveraged roughly $4.0 million in grant money across ~$7.0 million in projects. The footprint is modest and early-stage: the program manager candidly described 'very low adoption rates' with Utah 'trying to play catch up,' so the figure documents reach rather than proven acreage of practice change.
Produced by a program the law funds or incentivizesAs of Jun 30, 2023Source: Utah Department of Agriculture and Food (UDAF) ↗
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