Edge Dairy Farmer Cooperative Farmer-Led Climate-Smart Commodities Initiative

Building Success from the Ground Up

This project will expand climate-smart markets and establish dairy and sugar as climate-smart commodities by implementing climate-smart production practices, like cover crops and stripcropping, improving business practices for climate-smart commodities, and making use of data and information collected to inform future standards. Each farmer-led project under the proposal will be encouraged to create enhanced financial incentives for underserved and small farmers to encourage participation.

The project plans to encourage on-ramps into available business opportunities and increase revenue streams associated with the adoption of climate-smart actions. Marketing plans focus on a bottom-up approach to establishing markets through farmer leadership in areas with farmer-led projects.

1. Be located within Edge Dairy Farmer Cooperative geography.

2. Have access to data that aligns with project goals.

3. Be willing to participate long term, with a requested commitment through March 31, 2028, and a 30-day notice if you wish to end your project.

Non-dairy farmers are eligible to participate through farmer-led groups or by supplying crops to a dairy farmer that is an Edge member participating in a project. Preference is given to projects that focus on data sharing in the supply chain.

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