SF 429: Providing for a pilot program to reduce the use of commercial nitrogen-based fertilizers to produce crops, and making appropriations

What it does

GENERAL. This bill amends Code chapter 466B, which includes a number of subchapters that provide programs to improve surface water quality. The bill creates a new subchapter requiring the division of soil conservation and water quality (division) created within the department of agriculture and land stewardship to develop, implement, and administer an innovative nutrient incorporation incentive pilot program (program). PROGRAM GOAL. The bill provides that the goal of the program is to encourage producers to produce crops in a manner that optimizes commercial nitrogen-based fertilizer rates and reduces commercial nitrogen-based fertilizer application rates by a threshold limit of the lesser of percent or pounds per acre by incorporating identifiable cost-effective qualifying crop production products.

Senate subcommittee · named February 25, 2025

• Sen. Tom Shipley (R) · tom.shipley@legis.iowa.gov
• Sen. Art Staed (D) · art.staed@legis.iowa.gov
• Sen. Cherielynn Westrich (R) · cherielynn.westrich@legis.iowa.gov

Lobbying · 3 for, 0 against

For: Ducks Unlimited, Inc.; Iowa Corn Growers Association; Pivot Bio

In plain words

1. February 25, 2025Filed in the Senate and sent to the Natural Resources and Environment committee
2. February 25, 2025Senate subcommittee named: Shipley, Staed and Westrich