Regenerative agriculture investment group reports on progress

(Agriculture Capital)

Portland, Ore.-based Agriculture Capital has released its fourth annual Impact Report, highlighting progress on its 16 farms and seven facilities for a variety of performance metrics.

The latest report, according to a news release, measures progress in 2019 on nearly 150 performance metrics, including worker safety, soil health, carbon greenhouse and particulate emissions and more.

The release said Agriculture Capital invests in vertically integrated permanent crop operations that span nearly 20,000 acres of table grapes, blueberries, hazelnuts and citrus in California, Oregon, Washington and Australia.

Progress in 2019, according to the company, includes 13,288 metric tons of CO2 sequestered annually in soil, a 20% average increase in soil organic matter, a 7.9% decrease in per-acre farm energy use and a 0.3% reduction in per-acre farm water use.

“We are committed to bringing fresh thinking to the humbling endeavor that is food system management and to showing the forward progress that a regenerative approach can deliver.” Wood Turner, senior vice president of Agriculture Capital, said in the release.
 

 

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