Farmers and ranchers
Sign up and we will help onboard you into the USDA program that pays for applying biochar to your land.
Farmer and rancher sign-up form
Tell us about your farm and we will guide you through the application process.
Paid to apply biochar
If you are a US farmer or rancher, the US government will pay for you to apply biochar to your crops, including application costs. Tree of Life will be happy to assist you in doing so, and will hold your hand through the application forms and related bureaucracy.
The program is the USDA Soil Carbon Amendment (808/336) conservation practice, which pays farmers and ranchers to apply biochar to their crops and forest land as a one-time procedure with a lifetime of benefits.
Typical applications
- Biochar with nutrient sources at 400 to 1,000 lb per acre in pre-till or strip tillage of corn or soybeans.
- 400 lb of biochar with 1,600 lb of compost, applied at 1 to 2 tons per acre in vineyards, orchards and row crops.
- Deep banding of biochar at 1 to 10 tons per acre when seeding grains.