Organic Valley Carbon Insetting Program
Cooperative Regions of Organic Producer Pools,
U.S. Department of Agriculture
Building a Multi-stakeholder Path to Produce, Market and Promote Climate-Smart Commodities Across the U.S.
This project will expand climate-smart markets and help finance partnerships and incentivize farmers to advance the Organic Valley Carbon Insetting Program. Organic Valley will use two strategies to reduce supply chain emissions: mitigate greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and maximize opportunities for carbon sequestration, focusing specifically on dairy and eggs as the climate-smart commodities.
The project plans to provide participating producers, mostly underserved producers, incentives for climate-smart practices like cover crops, reduced and no-till, prescribed grazing and soil amendments. Project plans to execute market and sales strategies of climate-smart dairy and egg products in branded Organic Valley products and in ingredients and bulk products.
OV-CIP will follow an innovative, best practice approach to Scope 3 value-chain GHG intervention quantification. CSAF practices and farm level carbon accounting will be validated and verified according to standards established by the Global GHG Protocol.
COMET-Farm and/or COMET- Planner will be used to quantify GHG benefits for all CSAF practices currently available in the COMET modules. COMET-Energy will be used for energy practices.
The project team has expertise with the suite of COMET tools. USDA’s Entity Scale Methods will be used to quantify GHG benefits for practices not included in the COMET tools.
OV-CIP will follow an innovative, best practice approach to Scope 3 value-chain GHG intervention quantification. CSAF practices and farm level carbon accounting will be validated and verified according to standards established by the Global GHG Protocol.
COMET-Farm and/or COMET- Planner will be used to quantify GHG benefits for all CSAF practices currently available in the COMET modules. COMET-Energy will be used for energy practices.
The project team has expertise with the suite of COMET tools. USDA’s Entity Scale Methods will be used to quantify GHG benefits for practices not included in the COMET tools.
Over 95 percent of farmers participating in the project are anticipated to be small and/or underserved farmers.
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Financial Instrument
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Total Program Funding
$25,000,000
Updated December 21, 2023
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