ADM & PepsiCo Illinois Wheat Project
ADM is partnering with PespiCo support sustainable wheat production Illinois with a focus on soil health and reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
Engagement Targets
Notes: (1) Minor fluctuations in the number of retained growers is expected from year to year. These fluctuations may be due to year-over-year crop rotation effects or other factors beyond the control of the project. Enrolled acres represent the total number of acres on an individual farm in a specific year. The ability to report enrolled acres is based on the Fieldprint Project Standard requirement that individual growers enrolled in projects enter at least 10% of the acres managed for a specific crop. (2) Entered acres represent the actual number of enrolled acres for which data is entered in the Fieldprint Platform for analysis.
Objectives
This is the first year of the project, and we aimed to enroll 1,000 acres in cover crops. We had many interested growers and exceeded our initial target by nearly 50%.
This is the year, we funded 4,063 acres of cover crops following a small grain rotation. Additionally, in 2024, PFI paid cost-share on 930 acres of corn that received reduced nitrogen fertilizer following their prior small grain and legume cover crop.