Tyson, nonprofit partner on sustainable land project

Tyson Foods and the nonprofit Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) announced a partnership to develop initiatives aimed at accelerating sustainable food production. The partnership will focus first on helping Tyson meet its land stewardship goal, announced in April 2018, to work with farmers to improve practices across two million acres of corn production by 2020. A pilot project will focus on reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions on 500,000 acres of corn, improving water quality and maximizing farmer profitability.The pilot will use cloud-based agricultural technologies from MyFarms and Farmers Business Network to collect data for analysis of agricultural production practices. Farmers will have an opportunity to use a new method for calculating nitrogen loss. Excessive nitrogen application is a primary water quality concern, contributes to GHG emissions and is a source of lost income for farmers, according to Tyson and EDF.