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December 20, 2023

Register Today: We are only 48 Days Away from Trust In Food Symposium 2024!

Please mark your calendars now so you can join us in 2024 to kick off the year with insightful conversations around how we can meet this seminal moment in American agriculture with impactful action toward conservation. Our theme this year – Game Changers: Rethinking Coalition-Led Solutions to Scale Sustainable Agriculture – provides the platform for an interactive workshop that will allow attendees to collaborate on new solutions along with novel thinking needed to take full advantage of this unique moment in time. Space is limited. Register, learn more and sign up to receive updates now.

Valent U.S.A. Using Sustainability Values to Shape Decisions, Now and for the Future

For Valent U.S.A., the idea of sustainability as a corporate principle is centuries old and woven into the fiber of their culture, passed down from their parent company, Sumitomo Chemical Company, LTD. Sumitomo operates under the philosophy of Jiri-Rita Koushi-Ichinyo, which, in Japanese, means that the actions of the business must benefit society at large.  

Recently, Valent U.S.A. has made significant strides toward bringing that sustainability culture all the way through to their customers, releasing their latest Sustainability Report and establishing a Sustainable Solutions Criteria, which helps growers evaluate and asses their products’ sustainability metrics to fit operational goals.  

America’s Conservation Ag Movement recently partnered with Valent U.S.A. to share how they are aligning those sustainability principles with innovation. In the video, titled “People, Planet and Productivity,” you can hear how trusted advisors and growers feel about the company’s focus. Learn more about the video series from Jamie Sears Rawlings, manager of climate smart communications at Trust In Food, and dig deeper into the company's sustainability principles through a recent interview with one of their executives.

Trust In Beef™ Deepens Expertise With New Partners; Ducks Unlimited and ABS Global further the program’s capabilities to support ranchers in enacting climate-smart change with technical assistance and genetic innovation

For two years Trust In Beef has been working to empower beef producers on their sustainability journeys by leveraging the power of Farm Journal’s Trust In Food and Drovers brands with the ingenuity and innovation of private-sector and non-profit partners.

Trust In Beef is proud to welcome Ducks Unlimited and ABS Global to bolster the technical expertise provided by the coalition’s existing partners, which includes Merck Animal Health, National Cattlemen’s Beef Association, Enogen/Syngenta, Tyson Foods and the U.S. Roundtable for Sustainable Beef.

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At the Convergence of Tech and Climate, Syngenta is Bringing Solutions that Protect Biodiversity

The inaugural GreenBizBLOOM 23, held concurrently with GreenBiz VERGE 23 in San Jose, Calif., attracted leaders from NGOs, food companies, technology and academia to discuss the link between the climate and biodiversity crises and how stakeholders across the value chain can enact meaningful change for the benefit of both.

For Syngenta, the show served as a chance to accomplish two of the input company’s goals — first, to bring their new  BioDiversity Sensor Project to a broader climate tech audience and second, to ensure that companies in the agriculture industry have a presence in the climate conversation.

Follow continued coverage of GreenBiz VERGE 23 from Jamie Sears Rawlings, manager of climate smart communications at Trust In Food.

Simple And Sustainable: Feeding Dairy Cows This One Ingredient Could Reduce Methane Emissions By Up To Half

Cutting methane emissions from dairy cows was a major focus of the recent COP28 Summit, which brought global climate change issues to center stage. The Dairy Methane Action Alliance says it will begin reporting methane emissions in 2024 and have an action plan by end of year. AgWeb has found researchers that might have a head start – their research has found a way to cut emissions by up to half with one simple ingredient. Tyne Morgan, host and executive producer of U.S. Farm Report, shares those insights and more from COP28.

ReSeed and FoodChain ID partner to promote transparency, regenerative ag

FoodChain ID, a global sustainability certifier, and ReSeed, a provider of full life-cycle carbon-credit traceability, have partnered on a new carbon-credit verification standard that aims to incentivize, measure and verify the progress of carbon sequestration through regenerative agriculture practices.

The companies say their partnership combines the Fairfield, Iowa-based FoodChain ID’s more than 25 years of sustainability certification and verification experience with Pittsburgh-based ReSeed’s artificial intelligence-powered digital ledger transparency platform to answer a specific market need with independent verification of carbon credits.

Jennifer Strailey, editorial director, produce at Farm Journal has the full story of what the partnership will mean for the industry and a more sustainable future for agriculture at The Packer.

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