Truterra, Nori Launch Partnership to Address Major Challenges to Farmer Participation in Carbon Markets
Truterra, LLC, the sustainability business and subsidiary of Land O’Lakes, Inc., one of America’s largest farmer-owned cooperatives, has announced a new pilot project with Nori, a company using blockchain technology to create a new voluntary carbon removal marketplace. The pilot focuses on addressing a key infrastructure challenge holding back the development of an ecosystem services marketplace at scale: the ability to easily translate existing farm data that capture the carbon removal impact of on-farm conservation practices into potential carbon credits that could offer a new viable revenue stream for farmers.
Through the pilot, Truterra is syncing up its best-in-class technology, the Truterra Insights Engine, which farmers are already using to generate customized stewardship and profitability data and insights for each field and acre, with Nori’s carbon marketplace. Growers will be able to use the data they’ve already entered into the Truterra Insights Engine and other sources of farm data to submit to Nori, at no cost to them, to see the potential value of carbon credits they could generate as a result of the soil health-building practices they have implemented on their farms. Currently, farmers can be paid up to $15 per tonne of carbon sequestered in the soil on Nori’s marketplace.
The pilot will make it easier for growers to understand what they have to gain in a carbon market and to use that information to make decisions about their stewardship practices. Under the pilot, farmers will retain full ownership of their data – as they do at all times as part of the Truterra Insights Engine– and Nori can provide guidance on how much data to use to qualify for carbon credits.
“As a wholly owned subsidiary of Land O’Lakes, Inc., which is a farmer-owned company, Truterra is focused on developing new ways for our farmers to derive value both from their data and from the stewardship practices they have made the choice to implement on their farms,” said Amanda Neely, Senior Manager, Technology and Innovation, Truterra. “There’s a lot of excitement and, frankly, some big promises out there about carbon markets and the potential for farmers to derive revenue from them. But private sector markets are still in their early stages and there are still many challenges to address before they can scale and become mainstream. This partnership is designed to identify and address those challenges, and deliver real results and value for the planet and for our farmers, building on the improved profitability and better return-on-investment that farmers in the Truterra network may see as a result of implementing certain conservation practices.”
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