Consumers Want Sustainably Grown Food, But Who Pays?
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ποΈ 10 July 2019
β±οΈ 25 minutes
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Summary
Consumers are demanding more sustainably grown food. So are big food companies. But how willing are they to offset the costs β and the risks β that farmers bear as they change up their practices? Zach and Mitchell talk with Jerry Lynch, the chief sustainability officer at General Mills, about supply chain incentives for growers.
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General Mills Regenerative Agriculture Initiative
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| 0:00.0 | Field work is brought to you in part by General Mills, which is partnering with farmers and suppliers to advance regenerative egg practices on a million acres of farmland by 2030. |
| 0:16.0 | Welcome back to another episode of the Field Work podcast. |
| 0:22.6 | This is a podcast for farmers by farmers where we talk about sustainable egg practices. |
| 0:27.6 | I am one of the hosts, Zach Johnson. |
| 0:30.6 | I'm Mitchell Hora. Happy to be back on another good episode here. |
| 0:35.6 | Talking about supply chain incentives and a lot moving here with big companies, little companies. |
| 0:43.2 | Everybody seems to kind of be throwing their hat into sustainability, regenerative ag, incentivizing supply chains and whatnot and driving that back down to the farm. |
| 0:55.3 | So an interesting conversation to be had here today. |
| 0:58.3 | Yeah, so it's really driven by consumer demand a lot. |
| 1:01.6 | You know, the consumers are demanding fun labels and better, |
| 1:05.5 | better environmentally friendly practices, whether that's conservation tillage or, you know, words like sustainability |
| 1:12.6 | and stewardship and whatever those words may mean to you. But that is what the consumers really are |
| 1:18.6 | driving. And so that's something that brands are able to really, you know, take advantage of |
| 1:24.6 | and be able to work with farmers to try and accomplish those |
| 1:27.9 | things, whatever it may mean to the individuals and to the brands and to the consumers and the |
| 1:31.8 | farmers. But how do we make that, as Mitchell said, economically viable on the farm so that |
| 1:36.7 | farmers can implement those different practices and really be able to meet those demands? |
| 1:41.5 | Well, Zach, today, we are going to find out how we're going to do it. |
| 1:44.7 | We've got the answers sitting here in the room, and we're going to get to the bottom of it. |
| 1:48.7 | So super excited. |
| 1:50.2 | We got Jerry Lynch is joining us here. |
| 1:52.0 | He's the chief sustainability officer at General Mills. |
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