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LifeLine Foods and PepsiCo Missouri Corn Climate Smart Project
LifeLine Foods and PepsiCo are collaborating to support row crop farmers in Missouri to adopt farming practices known to improve soil health and reduce greenhouse gases, while reducing long-term costs for farmers. This includes cover crops and nutrient management.
Active
Innovation
Engagement Targets
Notes: (1) 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 farmers to plant at least 2,000 new acres of cover crops by the end of Year 1.
Measured through matching up cover crop seed receipts with farmer reported information on number of acres of cover crops planted.
Farmers planted over 2,000 acre of cover crops
Measurably reduce GHGs on change acres compared to control acres / baseline.
GHG emissions were measured and slightly reduced in 2023
Participants
Project Lead Organization
LifeLine FoodsFull
PepsiCoFull
Implementation Partner
Practical Farmers of IowaFull
Project Details
Status
Active
Pathway
Innovation
Primary Crops
Corn (grain)
Soybeans
Natural Resource Concern
Counties the project is located in: