Cooling Temperatures And Warming Focus On Regenerative Ag

For many of us, winter brings with it visions of plummeting temperatures, barren trees, gray skies and—because I couldn’t resist—sugar plums. But in fact, what we’re seeing here at Trust In Food™ is ever-growing interest across food and agriculture in innovating, building and scaling evnironmental stewardship programs designed to help farmers and ranchers accelerate the transition to a regenerative future.

Like farmers themselves, taking a break isn’t something in the vocabulary of most sustainability professionals we know. That’s a compliment.

A favorite year-end activity, especially for media eager for viewers’ attention amid holiday downtime, is recapping the annual leaderboard. Which data points and statistics made the headlines? What do those figures reveal about us, our society and our priorities? (Wait—don’t answer that.) In today’s edition of the newsletter, we reflect back on some of the sustainable ag data points we surfaced this year, specifically via the "Farmer Perspectives On Data 2021" report in partnership with The Sustainability Consortium. This free resource is a great reminder of why it matters to work hard on behalf of producers.There are real and present needs to meet so producers can better operationalize and act upon the data they capture, from barn to field. Better data and analysis means better quantification of the real environmental benefits producers provide to their communities and society each day.

Last but not least, with each edition we like to share an update or a highlight from our public-private partnership, America’s Conservation Ag Movement (ACAM). Today, we congratulate Kris Johnson on his appointment as director of agriculture in North America for The Nature Conservancy, a Founding Partner of ACAM. We’ve been privileged to work with Kris and his team for years and look forward to continued collaboration with TNC to share its conservation ag expertise, insights and farmer success stories in 2022 and beyond. You can read more about Kris and his vision for U.S. regenerative agriculture on TNC’s website.