<aside> 💡 Users receiving incentive payments for regenerative agriculture practices can account for these subsidies within every farm. This helps users understand their out-of-pocket costs relative their subsidized cost.

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Applying Subsidies

There are two primary types of subsidies — Categorical and Itemized — that determine how the subsidy is applied to your costs.

Categorical subsidies

• Categorical subsidies are applied as a percentage reduction of all expenses within a specific category. These categories include:
  • Genetic Stock
  • Installation Operations
  • Management Operations
  • Harvest Operations
  • Marketing Operations
  • Capital Expenses.
• To apply a category level subsidy:
  1. Navigate to Economics → Farm Data → Subsidy Settings.
  2. Enter a % of the total cost your subsidy will fund in the Category Subsidy field.
  3. Click Save.

Item-level subsidies

• Itemized subsidies enable users to subsidize individual expenses.

• This type of subsidy is available for Capital Expenses and Genetic Stock only, enabling differential subsidizing of tree species, equipment, and infrastructure.

• To apply a category-level subsidy:

  1. Navigate to Economics → Farm Data → Subsidy Settings.
  2. Click + Add Override.
  3. In the item dropdown, select the capex or crop you plan to subsidize.
  4. Input the % reduction in cost provided by the subsidy.
  5. Click Save.

  

Understanding Subsidy Impact

To understand how subsidies impact your out-of-pocket costs, navigate to either the Summary, Operations, or Capital dashboards.

• Within these Projections dashboards, toggle the Apply Subsidy button on or off via your filters. Your projections will auto-adjust to include or exclude the subsidy.
• For both operations and genetic stock, toggling the Apply Subsidy button on will reveal a Subsidy / stem column, which indicates the dollar value covered by the subsidy on a per tree basis. The Unit cost column, by contrast, will update to indicate your out-of-pocket costs after inclusion of the subsidy (again, on a cost per tree basis).
• For capexes, applying the subsidy will auto-adjust the Unit cost column to reflect out-of-pocket costs as well.