Truterra has launched a first-ever carbon program for dairy farmers. Land O’Lakes created Truterra in 2016, offering incentives to adopt climate-smart farming practices like cover crops and no-till. Truterra President Jamie Leifker says this is their first program for the dairy business. Truterra is working with three dairy companies, Land O’Lakes, Dairy Farmers of America, and Bel Brands. “What we want farmers to understand is that we’re owned by a farmer-owned organization that puts a high degree of effort into the fidelity of our data to ensure that we’re protecting the farmer’s data in a way that they own it; they never lose control of it,” said Leifker. “We’re not calling out specific performance on specific farms. We aggregate the data so we’re protecting the farmer and the efforts that they’re putting into their farm.” Listen to RRFN’s interview with Leifker.
