On behalf of the Trust In Food team, we wish you a Happy New Year full of progress and prosperity.

To that end, we’re excited to invite you to jump start 2024 with an interactive workshop aimed at rethinking how conservation agriculture can meet the needs of this moment in time defined by historic levels of funding and urgency for regenerative agriculture practices to reach mainstream adoption.

We want to celebrate the emerging focus on uniting all sectors of the food production and processing value chain to work toward common goals and support producers in their regenerative journey. We are providing space for those collaborations at the Trust In Food Symposium so we can all take a step back from the whirlwind of the everyday to consider fresh thinking, new approaches, and innovative ideas and solutions.

Our Gamer Changers Workshop at the Symposium – Feb. 7-8 in Kansas City – will engage our unique expert audience to mine insights and advance innovative thinking intended to examine what’s been working, what opportunities lie ahead, and how we can pragmatically take action. The results of the Game Changers workshop will be produced into a report under Chatham House rules, and publicized though Trust In Food channels. All attendees will receive a detailed report on the work we do there together.

Learn more and register today. Space is limited, and our room block expires this Friday, Jan. 5. Don’t miss this chance to share your thought leadership with sustainable ag professionals from different sectors of the food value chain as we work together to shape new solutions that advance our work and the resilience of America’s farms and ranches.

Sincerely,

David Frabotta

Director of Climate-Smart Content

By Kristin Leigh Lore, manager of climate smart content, Trust In Food: In 2023, USDA’s Partnerships for Climate-Smart Commodities turned on the spigot to fund 141 projects, totaling $3 billion. Understanding the projects — each run by a different organization with its own unique offerings and structure — begs the question: Is it possible to have too much of a good thing?

“Producers are always interested in looking at opportunities, but we can’t review 141 grants,” says Jimmy Emmons, western Oklahoma rancher and Trust In Food senior vice president.

To cut out the time-consuming task of wading through the climate-smart projects, a new app pilot, the Climate-Smart Opportunity Navigator, seeks to remove the paperwork clutter and match farms and ranches with the right Climate-Smart Commodity grant project in minutes.

By Jamie Sears Rawlings, manager of climate smart communications, Trust In Food: Trimble Agriculture has spent the past four decades working shoulder-to-shoulder with farmers and their trusted advisors, and Darren Howie, Director of Carbon & Sustainability, believes Trimble brings a unique perspective to the growing conversation around sustainability in agriculture.

“Unlike other players in the carbon marketplace, Trimble is a technology company,” he says. “It’s in our DNA.”

Data is quickly becoming the currency of the climate-smart conversation, and that helps to ensure that Trimble Agriculture is poised to meet the very real need that growers face in generating, measuring and analyzing data.