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Cargill and Unilever Iowa and Illinois Soy Project
This Continuous Improvement Program will enable Unilever to credibly meet its goal of sustainably sourcing soy by 2020 and bring value to soy producers. This program will create a platform that enables participating growers and value chain members to gain and share valuable insights about the impacts and benefits of their management decisions across a number of key resource issues and the bottom line, with a focus on cover crops.
Complete
Innovation
Objectives
Support the adoption of cover crops on 10,000 soybean production acres and increase the number (target 30) of farmers adopting soil health practices by 2020.
Measured environmental improvement from a representative set of participants and modeled improvement in environmental outcomes on farms that have adopted soil health practices using the FieldPrint Platform and the Resource Stewardship Evaluation Tool.
Business model to support long-term behavior change toward adoption of cover-cropping.
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Participants
Project Lead Organization
UnileverFull
CargillFull
MyFarms LLCFull
Project Details
Status
Complete
Pathway
Innovation
Primary Crops
Soybeans
Natural Resource Concern