Jonathan Lundgren, founder of the Ecdysis Foundation, along with Clarksville, Ind. no-tiller Rick Clark, Bluffton, Ga., rancher Will Harris and Foxholm, N.D. farmer Brendon Bock were on hand last Friday as Trump signed the order, which said funding should be “significantly increased” for regenerative agriculture practices, research and education.

The Farm, Food and National Security Act of 2026, being referred to by some as “farm bill 2.0,” addresses provisions that weren’t included in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, which was passed last summer under budget reconciliation rules.

The U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition & Forestry released legislative text for the budget reconciliation package that the committee says will “rein in runaway spending” in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) and promote an invest in “rural America and America’s farm families.”

Robert Boyle is a self-proclaimed strip-till outlier in Coolidge, Ariz., where his 1,200-acre corn, cotton, alfalfa and dairy operation only gets about 7 inches of rain — if he’s lucky — and it often comes over the course of 2-3 storms.

Rollins, speaking before a jam-packed audience on the main stage at Commodity Classic, also announced the USDA will soon be releasing funding for the popular EQIP, CSP and ACEP programs that had been previously frozen during the review process.

Researchers at the University of Illinois conducted a thorough review of federal data to analyze how inflationary pressures are affecting the reach of USDA’s conservation assistance to farmers. Read on to see what they found.

Strip-Till Farmer editors encounter a variety of articles, social media posts, podcasts and videos that offer a unique look at the grower's realm from the lofty digital realm. Here is our favorite content from the past week from across the web.