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Sustainability

Riceland Carbon Ready™

The Riceland Carbon Ready program allows our farmer-members to provide climate solutions for many of our valuable customers. This program not only rewards farmers who are implementing sustainable farming practices today but also gives our farmers the tools and support needed to adopt new sustainable practices in the future.

Launched in June 2022, the Riceland Carbon Ready program, in partnership with Arva Intelligence, helps members capture and utilize the farm-level data generated within their operations.

Riceland Carbon Ready also allows the cooperative to help its customers achieve their Scope 3 Greenhouse Gas emission reduction goals while creating a meaningful impact for U.S. farmers and their land.

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A Shared Responsibility

Our Ingrain Good Promise

Our Ingrain Good mission is to create value for Riceland's members, employees, customers, and consumers by prioritizing education and the adoption of sustainable practices.

Riceland focuses improvement efforts on reducing its carbon footprint, maximizing efficiencies, reducing natural resource consumption, and optimizing the safety and well-being of all people associated with the cooperative.

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Carbon Ready Highlights

Drive New Market Opportunities

Riceland Carbon Ready™ bridges the gap between on-farm practices and supply chain goals—helping our customers meet Scope 3 targets, verify claims, and earn consumer trust.

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Reward Sustainable Practices

Since 2022, the Riceland Carbon Ready program has paid out nearly $8.5 million to farmers. Through this program, Riceland farmer-members are not only utilizing sustainable practices but are being rewarded for them.

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Cultivate for the Future

Program participants track key data points through the growing season to showcase how climate smart practices impact sustainable metrics with the assistance of Arva Intelligence.

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Program Elements Include

CO2e reductions

Water reductions

Irrigation practices

Fertilizer practices

soil sampling

Tillage
practices

off-season management

Read the 2024 Sustainability Report

Carbon Ready In The News

Riceland Carbon Ready Program Receives 2024 USA Rice Sustainability Award

The Riceland Sustainability Team and its Carbon Ready™ Program received the 2024 USA Rice Sustainability Award Tuesday at the USA Rice Outlook Conference in Little Rock, Ark.

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