Oregon Senator Ron Wyden has introduced legislation to encourage farming practices that improve soil health and crop resilience and lower the amount of carbon in the atmosphere.  The Healthy Soils Healthy Climate Act builds on a 2018 Farm Bill provision authored by Wyden by creating a permanent soil health program through the Environmental Quality Incentives Program at the U.S. Department of Agriculture.  The program would provide $100 million to producers who adopt practices designed to improve soil health through increasing carbon levels in soil.  The bill establishes protocols for measuring soil organic carbon levels before and after these practices begin in order to determine which farming practices store the most carbon.  The act would also establish a Soil Health and Carbon Science Research Program at Agriculture Research Stations that would provide grants to land-grant colleges and universities to conduct research relating to soil health and carbon science and do work at Agriculture Research Stations of the Department of Agriculture.