Nebraska’s LB 243 created a Healthy Soils Task Force within the Department of Agriculture, made up of representatives from government, academia, production agriculture, agribusiness, and environmental organizations. The Task Force is tasked with developing a “comprehensive healthy soils initiative” and an action plan for carrying out that initiative. The legislation defines “Improving soil health” as “increasing soil’s organic matter and diversifying its microbial activity to enhance agricultural productivity and environmental resilience.”