CHS, General Mills, and Agrible Northern Plains Wheat Project
General Mills has made a commitment to responsibly sourcing their key agricultural ingredients by 2020. CHS, General Mills, and Agrible are partnering together on a North Dakota and South Dakota project that will enable General Mills to credibly meet its goal and bring value to spring wheat producers. This program will create a platform that enables participating growers and value chain members to gain and share valuable insights about the impacts and benefits of their management decisions across several key resource issues and the bottom line. This project will initially engage producers in the Northern Plains to establish a baseline and document improvements across the spring wheat rotation.
Objectives
We worked with Agrible to capture field level data from 46 producers to better understand sustainability outcomes. We met annually to review aggregated reporting, share individual grower reports, hear from expert speakers, engage in small group discussions, etc. We have demonstrated continuous improvement in some indicators but not others, and have added practice based surveys where needed. We have provided thank you gifts for growers and are now engaging with them and supplier partners to chart out plans for 2021 crop and beyond.