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TruCarbon promises streamlined experience for farmers; novel approach for buyers to incentivize change at scale -Land O' Lakes Inc. and Truterra LLC ARDEN HILLS, Minn. — Truterra, LLC, the sustainability business and subsidiary of Land O’Lakes, Inc., one of America’s largest farmer-owned cooperatives, announced the launch of TruCarbon, a transformational new carbon program that will help farmers generate and sell carbon credits to private sector buyers. TruCarbon represents the first and only farmer-owned carbon program in the U.S. that is designed to provide both the best experience fo...

Featured: ImpactAlpha Original Alt-credit and mobile-money apps give African fintechs a closeup view of climate risks – and opportunities. Financial technology firms have leveraged billions of data points across mobile phones and social media to transform loan underwriting for the emerging consumer class. In turn, data from those users is providing fintech service providers real-time insight into something else: the accelerating climate impacts on farmers and rural communities and the urban poor. In Africa, demand for climate data is growing across supply chains to underwrite micro-insuranc...

How to make money from carbon soil sequestration? The day is coming when most farmers in the developed world will earn money from storing carbon dioxide in their soils, but when and how much? It all starts with carbon measurement. As greenhouse gas emissions become an increasingly urgent issue around the world, eyes turn to farmers and their ability to store carbon in the soil (and cut emissions on-farm as well). There are already fledgling ag carbon markets in Australia, the US and Canada, with the EU market expected in five to ten years, but what’s holding them back from gaining big groun...

Majesco Growing Expansion of Digital1st® EcoExchange Marketplace with New Partnerships and Apps Majesco Growing Expansion of Digital1st® EcoExchange Marketplace with New Partnerships and Apps Majesco, a global provider of cloud insurance platform software, today announced the expansion of new partnerships and apps in the Majesco Digital1 st EcoExchange, a curated live, plug-n-play ecosystem and service hub of Majesco Digital1 st Insurance platform. These new apps will provide new business capabilities to accelerate the insurance industry digital transformation. Majesco Digital1 st EcoExc...

Willie Vogt RECOGNIZING VALUE: Creating greater insight into how a crop was raised will have more value to buyers in the future. How you go from field to market is changing, and companies like Truterra are turning data into knowledge for the process. Truterra has new collaborations that bring enhanced insight to different parts of agriculture. There’s a growing interest among consumers and others in the food chain to have enhanced sustainability insight on the crops they raise. And this goes beyond the specialty crops, stretching deeper into row crop country. But ...