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Cotton Incorporated Louisiana Sustainability Project
Cotton Incorporated is committed to building on the effectiveness of the Field to Market and NRCS tools for continuous improvement by assuring farms that grow cotton meet responsible production criteria. The Cotton Incorporated Louisiana Sustainability Project started with the first iteration of the Fiedlprint Calculator as a research project used to test the validity and efficacy of the calculator and how well it tracks with farmer experiences. This legacy project is a basis for the current cooperative project with Cotton incorporated, the Cotton Foundation (National Cotton Council) and NRCS. The vision is to maximize involvement of Louisiana cotton farmers, collect maximum representative field information and eventually collect sufficient quality information that can be used for claims.
Complete
Innovation
Objectives
This project will work with 45 Louisiana cotton producers to document sustainability metric improvements based on direct support from the cotton industry and USDA NRCS.
Individual metric improvement progress towards national cotton industry goals will be considered based on the 2020 baseline.
Individual metric improvement progress towards national cotton industry goals will be considered based on the 2020 baseline.
Energy reductions by 15%, land use reductions by 13%, GHG reductions by 39%, soil carbon positive on 30% of fields, net zero soil loss.
Engaged 20 growers to document sustainability baseline on 29,418 acres in Louisiana.
Participants
Project Lead Organization
Cotton IncorporatedFull
National Cotton Council of AmericaFull
Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS)Full
Project Details
Status
Complete
Pathway
Innovation
Primary Crops
Cotton
Natural Resource Concern
Counties the project is located in: