CIBO Technologies, a climate software company for agriculture, has announced the expansion of its continued collaboration with Truterra, an agricultural sustainability business. By working together over the last several years, Truterra and CIBO have enabled the enrollment of millions of farmland acres into sustainability programmes.
Agriculture is one of the foremost contributors of greenhouse gas emissions, accounting for approximately 10% of overall U.S. emissions, and 90% of Scope 3 emissions for CPG and related companies. Leading companies in the food, biofuel, and other ag-related sectors have announced aggressive emissions reduction targets in their agriculture supply chains, yet progress on implementation has remained slow due to companies facing financial and operational challenges scaling their sustainability initiatives.
The work CIBO and Truterra are doing will continue to enable addressing these challenges. By leveraging CIBO’s platform and expertise in technology, Truterra is able to offer sustainability solutions that: connect companies interested in impacting their scope 3 emissions to farmers in their supply sheds; create new opportunities for farmers to stack privately funded programs with government programmes: and help companies quantify and report the impact of changes in on-farm practices in their supply sheds.
The work the two companies are undertaking aims to facilitate the continued growth of Truterra’s regenerative agriculture programmes.
Engaging farmers
Since 2022, Truterra has used CIBO’s platform to launch more than 20 programmes, and CIBO has supported Truterra with scaled interventions and emissions impact reporting across various projects, including Scope 3 projects for downstream customers and regenerative practice management incentives for upstream farmers.
To date, thousands of Truterra farmers have used CIBO’s Impact platform to qualify their land for Truterra sustainability programmes, while more than 2m acres have been enrolled in Truterra sustainability programmes. Hundreds of thousands of acres were enrolled within 24 hours of the most recent program launch.
“Truterra is committed to putting farmers’ needs at the heart of all of our programmes to ensure they have the knowledge, resources, and tools to scale regenerative practices benefitting both the environment and the farmer’s bottom line,” said Jamie Leifker, president of Truterra.
“By leveraging CIBO Impact, we are empowering farmers to implement practices that enhance farmland resilience and foster long-term sustainability.”
“We understand the challenges farmers face and have built CIBO Impact to ensure companies like Truterra have visibility into the right data, conservation programmes and incentives necessary for farmers to adopt practices that deliver measurable impact in reducing emissions,” said Daniel Ryan, CEO of CIBO Technologies.
“Together, Truterra and CIBO are strengthening the food system, with the shared goal of supporting the agricultural communities we serve.”
