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1. Field to Market: What is Sustainable Agriculture?
Illinois Soybean Association July 2012
Catherine Campbell, Consultant, Field to Market,
The Keystone Alliance for Sustainable Agriculture
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2. Who is Field to Market?
• Collaborative Stakeholder Group
– Bringing together the full supply chain
– Includes producers
• Commodities Focused
– Unique supply chains and traceability issues
• Develop science- and outcomes-based measures
– Identify the key indicators for sustainability
– Measure broad-scale trends and field-scale outcomes
• Scale and implement metrics for supply chain
sustainability programs
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4. How We Define Sustainable Agriculture
• Meeting the needs of the present while
improving the ability of future generations to
meet their own needs
– Increasing productivity to meet future food and
fiber demands
– Improving the environment and human health
– Improving the social and economic well-being of
agricultural communities
5. Deliverables: What We Are Doing
Grower Fieldprints: Supply chain
National indicators
Individual projects:
report:
opportunities for Direct engagement
continuous Documentation of
in continuous
improvement overall trends
improvement
Public data and models
Collaboratively developed
Outcomes based
6. National Indicators Report
• Outcomes based
• Practice/technology neutral
Criteria •
•
Transparent and credible science
On-farm production outcomes within a
grower’s control
• Crops: corn, cotton, potatoes, rice,
soybeans, and wheat (2012)
Data & • Indicators : land use, soil use, irrigation
water, energy use, green house gas
emissions in socio-economic added in 2012
Methods • Analyzed publicly available data ,1980-2011;
U.S. national-scale indicators
• Peer reviewed
7. Soybean Results
Index of Per Bushel Resource Impacts to Produce Soybeans
(United States, Year 2000 = 1) Land Use Improved:
Year 2000 * Unit - per Bushel 2.2 • All per bushel
Land Use 0.027 Planted Acres 2.0
Soil Erosion 0.131 Tons 1.8 measures
Irrigation Water Applied 0.766 Acre Inches 1.6
Energy 70,669 Btus 1.4 • All soil erosion
Greenhouse Gases 15.1 Pounds CO e 1.2
* Five-year average 1996 - 2000
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1.0 Soil Erosion measures
0.8
0.6 • Yield and total
Greenhouse
0.4 production
Gases 0.2
5 Yr. Avg. 1980 - 84 0.0
5 Yr. Avg. 1987 - 91
5 Yr. Avg. 1997 - 01 Increased:
5 Yr. Avg. 2007 - 11 • Total land use
• Total irrigation
Note: Data are presented in index form, where the year
water applied
2000 = 1 and a 0.1 point change is equal to a 10% difference.
Index values allow for comparison of change across Energy • Total energy use
Irrigation Water Applied
multiple dimensions with differing units of measure.
• Total GHG
emissions
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8. A Closer Look
Soybean Results: Irrigation Water Applied
TOTAL PER ACRE PER BUSHEL
• Per acre irrigation water applied has been flat over most of the
study period
• Per bushel soil irrigation water applied decreased 42% but has
leveled off in recent years
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9. U.S. Producers Have a Great Story to Tell…
• Efficiency gains over time, along with increased production
• Improvements on a number of economic and social indicators
As well as opportunities for continued
improvement
• Pace of improvement has slowed over the study
period
• Conservation Reserve Program contracts are
expiring and prices are making production on
those acres more economically viable
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11. What is the Fieldprint Calculator?
• Free online education tool for row crop farmers that
indexes their agronomics and practices to a Fieldprint
• Helps growers evaluate their farming decisions and
compare their sustainability performance
– In the areas of: – Against:
• Land use • Their own fields
• Soil conservation • Their own performance over
• Soil carbon time
• Water use • County, state and national
• Energy use averages
• Greenhouse gas emissions
• Water Quality and Biodiversity in development
14. Field to Market Calculator Pilot Projects
• Demonstrate use of calculator on
the ground to test utility at the
grower level and through the
supply chain
• Currently 6 member-led pilots
engaging farmers across
geographies, crops, and supply
chains
• Over approximately 300 farmers
engaged
15. Pilot Program Goals and Outcomes
• Establish baselines
• Continuous monitoring
• Implementation and documentation of
change of practices
• Life Cycle Analysis
• Program education
• Relationship-building
16. Nebraska Corn Pilot:
- Collaboration
Objective:
• Using FTM tools and resources to complete the carbon and water footprints for
Kellogg’s Frosted Flakes supply chain by capturing the grower link and to collect
the necessary data to raise the Fieldprint Calculator to a higher level of
functionality
Process:
• Establish a representative grower database
• 22 growers representing 35-40% of Crete corn grind (40,000 acres)
• Additional participation and support of:
• National Resource and Conservation Service (NRCS)
• National Corn Growers Association (NCGA)
• Nebraska Corn Board
• University of Nebraska Extension Service
• Collect data from farm production of corn. 17
17. Nebraska Food Chain Pilot:
Greenhouse Gas Emissions & Water Usage
Ag Intermediate Food
Inputs Aggregation Distribution Consumption
Production Processing Processing
Seed
Fertilizer
Grower
3,062 Short Tons GHG 4,764 Short Tons GHG 53,594 Short Tons GHG
458,348,017 Gal Water 5,420,270 Gal Water 232,145,565 Gal Water
Total 2009 Greenhouse Gas Emissions = 62,533 Short Tons
Total 2009 Water Usage = 695,913,852 Gal
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20. Irrigated Corn 2009, Crete Nebraska –
Average Field Print and Grower ID No. 1
Grower ID - 1 Score
Land Use 89
Soil Conservation 154
Irrigation Water 71
Energy 101
Greenhouse Gases 103
Soil Carbon 200
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21. Pilot Feedback
“I’ll tell you, I wish I had this tool when I first started
my position here at the District. It’s a great way to
get to know growers and local operations and to get
a conversation started. I’m making more in-roads
with the Fieldprinting project, than I have with much
of the previous outreach I’ve done. If it’s used as
nothing more than an outreach tool, it’s a winner.”
– Jared Foster, Van Buren Conservation District/Paw-Paw pilot
Fieldprint Calculator, a free, online tool to help growers analyze their operations and help the supply chain explain how food is producedNational Report on environmental and socioeconomic trends over time for U.S. commodity cropsPilot programs – field level – using the Fieldprint Calculator to provide value to growers and provide insight into building supply chain sustainability programs
In 2009, Field to Market introduced the Environmental Resource Indicators Report, which indicated that production agriculture has been increasing its efficiency over time.Using available data, the report evaluated national-scale metrics from 1987 to 2007 for land use, water use, energy use, soil loss, and climate impact and generated initial benchmarks for corn, soybean, cotton and wheatproduction. The study evaluates both overall resource use, as well as resource efficiency to demonstrate the positive change in each crop’s “fieldprint” over the past two decades. The report looks at the outcomes that have resulted in farmers implementing a variety of production practices, versus studying the practices themselves.
Average total decrease -28%Average per acre decrease per acre -41%Average per bushel decrease of -66%
Total water use increased 271%, incidence of irrigation in soybeans is low, increasing from 4% in 1980 to 9 percent in 2011Per acre decreased 9%Per bushel decreased 42%
Growers enter information about their field practices
Users can compare their own results to county, state, and national benchmarks and print a report of their results
