Illinois Sustainable Ag Partnership’s Post

Did You Know? 💡 The NCIAF has a newsletter! Our first one was published for the month of June - if you want to join our mailing list to receive the newsletter, please visit our website: https://nciaf.ca/ #nourishingnationsempoweringgenerations #reconciliag #indigenouseconomy #agriculturenews

SVZ was present in the Cool Farm Alliance event of this year. Some key takeaways: 🕸️ Carbon accounting is relatively new so it is work in progress. 🍃 We need to share the cost across the supply chain to measure and implement practices at farm level. 🗣️ The Carbon Farm Tool provides us numbers. But let’s not forget about the stories and relationships in the farm. These are also very important. 🍽️ if you are not in the table, you are in the menu. Carbon accounting is missing voices, especially farmers’ voices, youth, and government officials.

Yesterday the first UK-wide, comprehensive review of farm assurance was published by the independent commissioners highlighting the importance of farm assurance to the industry’s future. We will continue listening to industry and on ground experience as part of our ongoing standards evolution. Read more: https://ow.ly/Tk3U50UK84G

Thanks to the TCA Accelerator for building momentum for systemic approaches to financing food systems transformation. Looking forward to the next milestone: the Summit. https://lnkd.in/g2W5GMNs And, TIFS will advance solutions for these gnarly issues in the next iteration of the Missing Middle dialogues, which will engage institutional asset owners to problem-solve for challenges at the intersection of natural capital and food systems.

Thank you to the participants of our 'Scaling Holistic Approaches to Agrifood System Finance and Investment' workshop. It was a fascinating discussion on scaling the use of True Cost Accounting in Finance and Investment. Key discussion points: 🌏 Bridging between worlds - how to find a common language between finance, government, conservation, agriculture? 🌿 Scaling, sustainably - how can we rapidly scale TCA while avoiding greenwashing and maintaining best practice? 📊 Data quality and framework development - can we use TCA to improve baseline data quality and availability and encourage a standardized approach? Thank you as well to our co-leads Tim Crosby and Rex Raimond, Transformational Investing in Food Systems for their hard work and insights in the development of this Dialogue.

This is going to be an informative discussion for every farmer who is interested in collecting weather and soil moisture data. I look forward to your attendance. #digitalfarming #precisionagriculture #AgTech #weatherstation #NRCS

Join us for a panel discussion about leveraging grants to fund critical improvements to your agricultural operations, such as in-field monitoring systems. Our panel will include Christopher Sullivan, head of AEM's agricultural sector, and Paige Wyler from Ambrook, a company that builds financial management tools for farms (including a grants library and recordkeeping tools). You’ll also hear from Dan Brown of FOUR RIDGE ORCHARDS, INC.. Dan used an NRCS grant to cover the cost of a Davis EnviroMonitor system, which is now helping him improve profitability and operational efficiency.  https://lnkd.in/gcgiRCN2

#FarmTransition Tip: Hold a formal meeting to identify and harmonize everyone’s vision and goals of key n writing Today is Farm Transition Appreciation Day. Transition is a key to long-term success of your farm business. Is your farm transition-ready? Check out our Farm Transition Toolkit to help you get started! https://lnkd.in/ecqdYqyE #FTADay2025

What if you could eliminate 3 days from your financial close cycle? What would you do with your extra time? For Nutreco, this improvement has provided more accurate, on-time, and higher quality reporting. Hear how Nutreco is hitting deadlines and achieved a 33% reduction in accounting errors in monthly financials in this case study: https://ow.ly/yClQ50Uylmu #ESG #FutureOfFinance #FinancialReporting

You've all heard me talk about the market for ecosystem services. Now that USDA can be an aggregator in this market, should it? The SUSTAINS Act makes it possible for USDA to accept private contributions, use those to make "performance-based payments" to farmers for conservation, and then credit the funders with any ecosystem services generated. But what's the benefit of this? Why would a company want to "buy" from them? Why should we as citizens want the Department to participate in these markets at all? Read my latest blog to find out: https://lnkd.in/gGDXxPwZ