Leading Harvest

Thank you to everyone who attended this week’s Leading Harvest North America Summit! The summit brought together our membership and select downstream companies for important dialogue up and down the supply chain. We are excited about next steps towards accelerating sustainable outcomes and driving continuous improvement at scale. Thank you to our speakers, including Dave Muth, Kyle Maple, Marisa Bocci, Wade Needham, Ricardo Eusebi, Emily Johannes, Jeff Olson, Mohan Tavorath, Claudia Roessler, Matthew Newhall, Carl Evers, Richard Burres, Sarah Angus, CAIA, Andrew Whitman, Jessie Deelo, Matt McGinness, Holly Evers, and Eli Cheatham, for sharing your knowledge and insights with us. And a special thank you to Derek Sandison from the Washington State Department of Agriculture (WSDA) for speaking at our Pacific Northwest regional breakfast.

This week is the Leading Harvest 2024 North America Summit! We are excited to bring together the Leading Harvest membership and select downstream companies for an important discussion on sustainable agriculture and supply chain resiliency. During this invitation-only event, Leading Harvest will invite consumer-facing businesses to the table with its membership and other valued stakeholders to create a dialogue around aligning interests and achieving sustainable outcomes at scale. Thank you to our sponsors Manulife Investment Management, International Farming, PSP Investments, Peoples Company, AgIS Capital LLC, PGIM Real Estate, Constellation Brands, K&L Gates, UBS, Optimum Agriculture, and Averum for their generous support.

Only one week until the Leading Harvest 2024 North America Summit! Leading Harvest is hosting an exclusive gathering for its membership and select downstream companies to discuss the role of capital and land management in accelerating sustainability goals. This invitation-only event will foster dialogue up and down the supply chain among landowners, farmland managers, consumer-facing brands, and retailers. By aligning interests, we aim to accelerate sustainable outcomes and drive continuous improvement at scale.

To achieve a sustainable and resilient global agriculture system, there must be alignment across the supply chain. Leading Harvest creates a common language and aligns entities across the supply chain on clear, consistent, and overarching standards. Matt McGinness, GM Environmental Sustainability - Global Wine & Spirits at Constellation Brands, and Holly Evers, Senior Stewardship & Certification Specialist at Manulife Investment Management, Timberland and Agriculture, will join us at our North American Summit for a conversation on Leading Harvest in the wine supply chain. The panel will discuss real-world examples and the potential to drive change. Stay tuned for more exciting details on the Summit.

We are excited to announce that Sarga Agriscience has joined Leading Harvest as an Activator to help support and advance our mission. Activators play a major role in the Leading Harvest ecosystem to help promote the mission of Leading Harvest, drive continuous improvement, and support the community of sustainable agriculture practitioners. Activators assist Program Users in obtaining certification with use of their products or services. With your support, we will grow a healthier future for all.

We are excited to work with Sarga Agriscience to further sustainable agriculture as a Leading Harvest Activator. Thank you for your commitment to continuous improvement and advancing the mission of Leading Harvest!

Landowners often need to build relationships and collaborate with tenant operators on implementing conservation practices on the ground, including the Leading Harvest framework. Dave Muth, Managing Director of Asset Management at Peoples Company Capital Markets, Kyle Maple, Director of Asset Management at US Agriculture, LLC, and Marisa Bocci, Partner at K&L Gates will join us during our Leading Harvest North America Summit member day for a conversation on engaging tenants to drive sustainability forward. Moderated by Rebecca Gildiner, the panel will discuss challenges, opportunities, and strategies to build effective business partnerships with tenants that prove mutually beneficial. Stay tuned for more exciting details and information on the Summit.

Registration closes this Friday, November 15th for the Leading Harvest 2024 North America Summit. Are you a Program User of Leading Harvest or received an invitation to the North America Summit? If so, register now to reserve your seat and join the conversation on connecting capital, land, and brands.    This invitation-only event will foster dialogue up and down the supply chain among landowners, farmland managers, consumer-facing brands, and retailers. By aligning interests, we aim to accelerate sustainable outcomes and drive continuous improvement at scale.

We are excited to connect capital, land and brands at our 2024 North America Summit for an important discussion on sustainable agriculture and supply chain resiliency. The two ends of the supply chain share a need for transparency, risk management, and good governance on sustainability topics, but have little opportunity to interact and explore collaboration. This invitation-only event will foster dialogue up and down the supply chain among landowners, farmland managers, consumer-facing brands, and retailers. By aligning interests, we aim to accelerate sustainable outcomes and drive continuous improvement at scale. Thank you to our sponsors Manulife Investment Management, International Farming, Peoples Company, AgIS Capital LLC, PGIM Real Estate, Constellation Brands, K&L Gates, UBS, Optimum Agriculture and Averum for their generous support.

Last June, Leading Harvest hosted a Global Summit on Regenerative Agriculture in Chicago. The event brought together the organization’s global membership, representing over 3 million acres in farmland management across the U.S. and Australia, for the first time to advance sustainable agriculture objectives and scale collective impact. There are no straightforward solutions to the challenges facing our global food and agriculture systems, but the unlikely combination of attendees from across the value chain produced frank and fruitful conversations about obstacles that had not been discussed before. We look forward to our 2024 North America Summit for important conversations on the role of capital and land management in accelerating sustainability goals. Read more about the Global Summit on Regenerative Agriculture and its key takeaways here: https://lnkd.in/ddq67pui