Cargill RegenConnect

Cargill RegenConnect pays farmers per acre for adopting soil-health practices — cover crops, reduced tillage, or no tillage — while connecting them with companies that value regenerative agriculture in Cargill's supply chain. The program is built around a deliberately simple structure: a one-year contract, per-acre payment based on enrolled practices, a self-service online platform, and one-on-one support from a Cargill Conservation Agronomist.

The one-year term is the shortest commitment among the major corporate carbon programs, making RegenConnect a low-risk way to try practice changes without a multi-decade contract. Cargill reported surpassing one million enrolled acres for the 2025 US planting season.

As of August 2026, the program is at capacity — Cargill is taking waitlist submissions rather than open enrollment.

• Enrolled growers must continue or expand newly adopted regenerative practices: cover crops, reduced tillage, or no tillage.

• One of the following crops must be harvested in the upcoming crop year: corn, soybeans, or wheat.

• Fields in perennial forage (alfalfa, grass pasture, hay) in the upcoming crop year are not eligible.

• The most recent published state list (2023 expansion) covers 24 states: North Dakota, South Dakota, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, Nebraska, Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Colorado, Kansas, Missouri, Kentucky, Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Tennessee, North Carolina, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, and South Carolina.

How payment works. Payment is per acre, based on enrolled practices, remitted in a single installment no later than December 31; total compensation is determined by practices completed across enrolled acres. Cargill does not publish current per-acre rates.

Contract term. A simple one-year contract, re-enrollable each season.

Stacking. Participation in any other program that generates, quantifies, models, measures or reports — and takes legal ownership of — any environmental outcomes on enrolled fields is not allowed.

The program is currently at capacity; join the waitlist through the form linked from the RegenConnect FAQ on the program page.

When enrollment is open, key deadlines run on an annual cycle: enrollment ends August 30 (or once acreage goals are met), a winter cover crop must be planted by February 28, the measurement phase completes by August 30, and payment is remitted in one installment no later than December 31.

Questions go to the RegenConnect team, by email or phone.