Because Transparency Matters
And Sustainability is more than a buzzword
Perhaps more than ever before, consumers want to understand everything—from farm to table—about what they eat, and they have a real interest in sustainably grown food. This desire for transparency creates a real opportunity for growers and manufacturers who are able to meet the demand. With a commitment to excellence and true transparency, ADM helps our customers achieve their sustainability goals—and make genuine connections with growers and consumers alike.
Growing Together
Connecting: Growers, Environment, Customers, consumers
Our Grower Connect™ program has grown from our legacy of deep-rooted relationships with our farmers. By communicating throughout the growing and harvest seasons, we ensure the consistency and quality of our ingredients. By supporting our growers with technology and resources, we help them to implement sustainable practices with positive environmental and economic outcomes. And, by sharing real stories about real farmers, we provide transparency about the people and places producing our ingredients, to strengthen the connection between consumers and the foods they buy.
Field to Market®
Connecting Customers with Sustainably Sourced Flour
Field to Market®: The Alliance for Sustainable Agriculture brings together a diverse group of grower organizations; agribusinesses; food, beverage, restaurant and retail companies; conservation groups; universities and public sector partners to focus on defining, measuring and advancing the sustainability of food, fiber and fuel production. This outcomes-based program uses a common measurement framework to help farmers support field-level improvements and allow manufacturers to make credible supply chain sustainability claims.
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FIELDPRINT™
With the Fieldprint™ platform, growers can assess the environmental performance of their management practices against benchmarks for eight key sustainability indicators. Growers participating in ADM’s Southern Plains Wheat Program use Field to Market®’s Fieldprint™
Platform to document and demonstrate their sustainability in areas including:
Land Use & Efficiency
Land is a fixed asset, so maintaining and improving yields on existing cropland are critical to maintaining economic sustainability and enabling other sustainability outcomes.
Soil Conservation & Soil Carbon
Preserving and maintaining healthy soil is key to sustainability. Erosion of soil reduces topsoil depth and decreases root growth, water-holding capacity and organic matter of the soil. Soil carbon reflects the directional increase or decrease in soil organic matter—a key indicator of soil health.
Energy Use & Greenhouse Gas Emissions
Energy use considers embedded energy used in agricultural inputs, as well as the operational activities to produce and transport the crop. GHG Emissions measures the emissions resulting from this energy use, as well as other sources of emissions from agriculture, such as tillage and nutrient use.
Irrigated Water Use & Water Quality
Water is an important limiting factor for crop production. The irrigated water use indicator is designed to measure the water factor most directly under the control of the producer, by assessing the overall efficiency of irrigation water applied in terms of the incremental improvement it produces in crop yields.
Beyond the efficiency of water use assessed in the Irrigation Water Use indicator, water in the nation’s streams, rivers, and estuaries is impacted by agricultural practices in complex ways. The water quality metric measures the potential losses of nutrients, sediments, and crop chemicals from a field.
Southern Plains Wheat Program
A collaboration between ADM, General Mills and Agrible in partnership with Kansas growers to measure natural resource management for Southern Plains winter wheat.
The Southern Plains Wheat Program provides growers a platform to share their stories, and consumers an understanding of where their food comes from, while offering a key customer the metrics needed to achieve sustainable sourcing goals and drive brand and shareholder value.
• As of July, 2019 the Southern Plains Wheat Program is the largest Fieldprint™ project focused on wheat
• Engaged over 100 wheat growers across 217,000 acres in 2018
• Awarded Field to Market® 2018 Collaboration of the Year
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Credibility: Certified
ADM is a proud member of Field to Market™, an alliance of food manufacturers, retailers, agricultural service providers and ingredient suppliers working collaboratively to define, measure and advance sustainability. This outcomes-based program uses verified metrics to help farmers support field-level improvements and manufacturers to make supply chain sustainability claims.
Shepherd’s Grain flour is produced from wheat grown under advanced soil regenerative, no-till processes and provides semi-traceability from farm to baker.
Food Alliance is a voluntary certification for agricultural producers and food companies to address growing customer demand for traceability, transparency, and social and environmental responsibility.
ADM’s Kansas Diamond White Whole Wheat Flour is sustainably grown as part of the Field to Market™ High Plains Winter Wheat Program. This project is a collaboration between Agrible and ADM with hard winter wheat producers in the High Plains to implement sustainability measures on their farms.