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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
Engagement Targets
Notes: (1) I Minor fluctuations in the number of retained growers is expected from year to year. These fluctuations may be due to year-over-year crop rotation effects or other factors beyond the control of the project. Enrolled acres represent the total number of acres on an individual farm in a specific year. The ability to report enrolled acres is based on the Fieldprint Project Standard requirement that individual growers enrolled in projects enter at least 10% of the acres managed for a specific crop. (2) Entered acres represent the actual number of enrolled acres for which data is entered in the Fieldprint Platform for analysis.
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(s)
Unilever
(Full)
Cargill
(Full)
MyFarms LLC
(Full)
Project Details
Status
Complete
Pathway
Innovation
Natural Resource Concern