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Clean Agriculture USA
Encourages those with agricultural equipment to:
- properly maintain equipment
- reduce engine idling
- retrofit diesel engines with verified technologies
- replace older equipment
- use cleaner fuels
- repower equipment (i.e. replace older engines with newer, cleaner engines)
- use clean operational practices (i.e. irrigation management and conservation tillage)
Clean Agriculture USA, part of the National Clean Diesel Campaign (NCDC), is an innovative program designed to help reduce diesel emissions from agricultural equipment and vehicles.
Nonroad diesel engines can contribute significantly to the levels of particulate matter (PM) and nitrogen oxides (NOx) in the air. In recent years, EPA has set emission standards for engines used in most new agricultural equipment. However, since such equipment can last 25 to 30 years, or more, it could take many years before existing equipment is replaced with newer, cleaner equipment. Because EPA’s regulations only apply to newly manufactured diesel engines, EPA developed the Clean Agriculture USA program to help farmers, ranchers, and agribusinesses reduce emissions from older engines that are in operation today.
On EPA's Clean Agriculture web site, you can:
- Basic Information: Read more about this incentive-based, innovative program that is designed to reduce emissions from existing diesel engines and nonroad agricultural equipment.
- What You Can Do: Learn the strategies that farmers and policy makers are implementing to reduce the impact of diesel emissions from agricultural equipment.
- Retrofit Strategies: Learn about strategies for reducing emissions from agricultural equipment including retrofitting, repowering, replacing, and reducing idling.
- Grants & Funding: Learn about available funding opportunities for adopting cleaner diesel technologies and strategies.
- Related Links: Get links to other agricultural organizations, clean diesel collaboratives and clean air partners.