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General Mills & Agrible Montana Big Sky Wheat Project
General Mills is committed to engaging farmers in continuous improvement and data collection projects. General Mills and Agrible are partnering together on an North Central Montana project that will enable General Mills to better engage farmers and more easily enroll farmers in their program. 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 several key resource issues and the bottom line. This project will initially engage producers in Montana to establish a baseline and document improvements across their wheat rotation.
Complete
Insight
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
Establish a grower performance baseline with project participants to demonstrate future opportunities for improvement.
| We worked with Agrible to capture field level data from 11 producers to better understand sustainability outcomes. We met annually to review aggregated reporting, share individual grower reports, hear from expert speakers, engage in small group discussions, etc. We have demonstrated continuous improvement in some indicators but not others, and have added practice based surveys where needed. We have provided thank you gifts for growers and are now engaging with them and supplier partners to chart out plans for 2021 crop and beyond. |
Collaborate with growers over time to implement sustainability measures at a field level and characterize various wheat crops.
| We worked with Agrible to capture field level data from 11 producers to better understand sustainability outcomes. We met annually to review aggregated reporting, share individual grower reports, hear from expert speakers, engage in small group discussions, etc. We have demonstrated continuous improvement in some indicators but not others, and have added practice based surveys where needed. We have provided thank you gifts for growers and are now engaging with them and supplier partners to chart out plans for 2021 crop and beyond. |
Provide outreach to farmers on measuring continuous improvement on practices including but not limited to soil health, fertilizer management, integrated pest management, etc.
| We worked with Agrible to capture field level data from 11 producers to better understand sustainability outcomes. We met annually to review aggregated reporting, share individual grower reports, hear from expert speakers, engage in small group discussions, etc. We have demonstrated continuous improvement in some indicators but not others, and have added practice based surveys where needed. We have provided thank you gifts for growers and are now engaging with them and supplier partners to chart out plans for 2021 crop and beyond. |
Participants
Project Lead Organization(s)
Nutrien
Project Details
Status
Complete
Pathway
Insight
Natural Resource Concern
Counties the project is located in: