A data-driven portrait of 3,000+ organizations mapped across farms, investors, brands, and technology companies operating in or adjacent to regenerative agriculture in the United States.
Only 11.5% of mapped farms hold a recognized regenerative or organic certification. The remaining 88.5% operate without third-party verification — a structural gap that limits access to premium markets, carbon programs, and mission-aligned capital.
Farm activity is spread across the country with Texas, California, Pennsylvania, and New York leading in count. Investor headquarters, however, cluster tightly in Colorado (29), New York (23), and California (16) — suggesting a geographic mismatch between where regenerative production happens and where the capital to support it lives.
Beef appears in over 61% of all farm product listings in the database. When combined with other animal products — chicken, pork, eggs, lamb, and dairy — livestock dominates the landscape. This reflects both the historical alignment between holistic grazing practices and the regenerative label, and a relative underrepresentation of row crops and perennial systems.
Venture (47) and impact funds (37) make up the majority of mapped investors. Credit and lending vehicles are notably thin at just 11 — a meaningful gap given that most farm-level transitions require patient debt, not equity. Real asset and farmland-focused investors, though fewer in number, often represent larger pools of deployed capital.
ROC (Regenerative Organic Certified) accounts for 61% of brand certifications, followed by Rainforest Alliance (20%) and Regenified (17%). These are philosophically distinct standards — ROC integrates soil health, animal welfare, and worker equity; Rainforest Alliance emphasizes supply chain sustainability; Regenified focuses on measurable soil outcomes. Their co-presence under the "regenerative" label reflects an ecosystem still negotiating what the term means.
Of 75 mapped technology companies, seed and pre-seed stage companies account for the largest share. A meaningful cluster are nonprofits or grant-funded — reflecting the public-good nature of tools like soil carbon measurement, verification infrastructure, and open-source farm management software. A handful of companies have reached Series B and beyond, signaling emerging market leaders.