Pictured: Peninsula Pride Farm field day
Farmers for Sustainable Food, Houston Engineering, Inc., and Peninsula Pride Farms earned the honor of Field to Market’s 2024 Collaboration of the Year. The recognition is due to their work on the Peninsula Pride Farms Sustainability Project.
Field to Market: The Alliance for Sustainable Agriculture is a diverse group that focuses on defining, measuring, and advancing the sustainability of food, feed, fiber, and fuel production. The group includes grower organizations; agribusinesses; food, feed, beverage, restaurant, and retail companies; conservation groups; universities; and public sector partners.
The award recognizes outstanding collaboration and cross-sector partnership in advancing sustainability at the field and landscape level.
The PPF Sustainability Project, in its fourth year, involved 11 farms managing over 34,000 acres and 40,000 head of dairy cattle in Door and Kewaunee Counties. The project’s completion date is next year after five years of data collection and analysis.
The farmers involved in this project use sustainability metrics to inform their farm management decisions. They have demonstrated continuous improvement in sustainability and water quality. See the key findings: https://farmersforsustainablefood.com/projects/ppf-sustainability-project/
Data is based on analysis by Houston Engineering Inc. using Field to Market: The Alliance for Sustainable Agriculture’s Fieldprint Platform.
“Collaborating with Houston Engineering to support members of Peninsula Pride in driving positive change is making a great impact, and the data continues to prove that,” says Farmers for Sustainable Food managing director Lauren Brey. “We’re honored to receive this award and incredibly proud of the farmers who are committed to measuring conservation progress and making improvements.”