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Sustainable Agriculture Research Act
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.
Summary
The Sustainable Agriculture Research Act amends the National Agricultural Research, Extension, and Teaching Policy Act of 1977 to add a new goal to the Agriculture Advanced Research and Development Authority (AGARDA). The new goal directs AGARDA to enhance the role of sustainable agriculture in developing innovative voluntary resilience solutions through agricultural technologies. These technologies would address extreme weather impacts on crop production, drought management and water capacity in soil, carbon storage potential through sustainable agriculture, sustainable energy feasibility on farms, and the adoption of conservation practices that build climate resilience. The bill also defines precision agriculture as managing crop and livestock production inputs at precise levels to improve efficiency, reduce waste, and maintain environmental quality.
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Sponsor (1)
- Rep. Neguse, Joe [D-CO-2] (D-CO)
1 cosponsor
- Rep. Flood, Mike [R-NE-1] (R-NE)
Money behind the sponsor
Top reported contributors to Joe Neguse’s campaign committee (2024 cycle) — who funds the bill’s sponsor, not a claim about this bill. Data from FEC.
- BROWNSTEIN HYATT FARBER SCHRECK $31,726
- HOLLAND & HART $17,400
- ELEVATIONS CREDIT UNION $14,600
- FOUNDRY GROUP $14,200
- DISH NETWORK $13,200
Organizations whose employees gave the most — itemized individual contributions grouped by the donor’s reported employer (FEC Schedule A). Full finance for Joe Neguse → · Outside spending →
Actions (3)
- Dec 2, 2025 Referred to the Subcommittee on Conservation, Research, and Biotechnology. · house
- Oct 28, 2025 Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture. · house
- Oct 28, 2025 Introduced in House
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IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
October 28, 2025
Mr. Neguse (for himself and Mr. Flood) 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.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the “Sustainable Agriculture Research Act”.
SEC. 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 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”. <all>
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