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ADM continues to drive farmer resilience with expansion of re:generations programme to Germany
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Friday, 31 January, 2025, 15 : 00 PM [IST]
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Germany
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ADM, a global leader in innovative solutions from nature, announced that it has partnered with AgriTech company Klim to expand its re:generations programme across Germany.
Re:generations supports agriculture and helps build and maintain a more resilient food system by providing financial assistance and agronomic support to farmers who are taking steps to implement regenerative agriculture practices. These practices include precise fertiliser application, conservation tillage, cover crops, increasing biodiversity habitats, and companion cropping that protect and improve soil health, biodiversity, climate and water resources while supporting farming business development.
Farmers enrolled in re:generations in Germany receive incentives per hectare for introducing regenerative agriculture practices. With a goal of enrolling 60,000 acres (approximately 24,281 hectares) in Germany by 2025, the programme in Germany is currently available for farmers growing wheat, oil seed rape, and soy. It follows the successful launch of re:generations in United Kingdom and Poland as part of the company’s goal to support regenerative agriculture practices across 5 million acres globally this year.
Candy Siekmann, director of Climate Smart Agriculture Origination at ADM, said, "We're excited to support farmers in strengthening their businesses and their futures across Europe, including with the expansion of our re:generations programme into Germany. The programme follows a comprehensive design which gathers data from across entire farms and provides farmers with tools to better position their farm for the future and help reduce and sequester emissions. Very few companies touch every part of the value chain, from farmer to consumer, the way ADM does, representing a unique opportunity to connect every step of that value chain."
Lorenz Rindler, farmer from Sundhagen in Germany, who recently enrolled his family farm in the re:generations programme, said, "We are convinced that regenerative farming practices will have a positive impact on our farm and our future. We particularly value the connection between us, ADM and downstream customers, which makes the programme a credible and economically meaningful initiative."
The company has partnered with AgriTech company Klim, a leading European provider of scope 3 solutions for agriculture, to onboard German farmers and further develop the programme by providing monitoring, reporting and verification services. Together, Klim and the company have defined over 30 key performance indicators that farmers can use to measure impact using comprehensive data and insights from across the entire farm. The analysis helps farmers review essential performance metrics to make informed decisions on which regenerative methods are the best suited to their operations. ADM and its customers can use the analysis to account for the results as part of their Scope 3 inventory.
Robert Gerlach, CEO & founder of Klim, said, "We're excited to partner with ADM to help support these practices. By combining ADM’s resources and farming network with Klim's data and analytics driven approach and regenerative expertise, we are spearheading an industry-wide shift towards a more resilient, sustainable food system. This partnership is a powerful model for how collaboration across the entire value chain can deliver both environmental impact and economic resilience at scale."
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