Cargill Regeneratively-Sourced Cotton Program

Cargill pays cotton growers a premium per pound for cotton grown with cover crops and reduced tillage and sold to Cargill. Growers sign a one-year contract to sell bales to Cargill and enter practice and production data with a Cargill rep on the Regrow platform. The premium can be stacked with other programs such as Better Cotton or the U.S. Cotton Trust Protocol, as long as the cotton is sold to Cargill.

• Grow cotton in an eligible state (web page FAQ: AL, AR, GA, KS, LA, MS, MO, OK, TN, FL, SC, NC, VA, TX; 2025 flyer also lists KY)

• "Growers must have implemented regenerative agriculture practices such as cover crops, no-till or reduced-till since Fall 2024 to qualify for the program."

• Cotton must be contracted, produced and delivered to Cargill

One-crop-year contract; premium per pound of cotton contracted and produced on land with regenerative practices; verification through Regrow MRV (in-field data, remote sensing, modeling); BCI/Trust Protocol participants still eligible but must sell to Cargill.

Published amounts: "Receive a premium per pound of cotton contracted and produced using regenerative practices (cover cropping plus reduced tillage)." Premium amount not published.

Sign a contract to sell cotton bales to Cargill, then work with a Cargill rep to enter cover crop, tillage and production data; register via the Regrow link on the page (app.regrow.ag/mrv/register?program_code=h6636s).

Deadline text on the page: Page: "Enrollment begins in May 2025." and "Sign a contract before December 1 to sell cotton bales to Cargill." 2025 flyer: "Sign a contract to sell cotton bales to Cargill between May 1 and December 01, 2025." No 2026 crop-year dates published.