Peninsula Pride Farms Project recognized at Annual Sustainable Agriculture Summit
GREEN BAY, Wis. — Farmers for Sustainable Food, Houston Engineering, Inc. and Peninsula Pride Farms were honored as Field to Market’s 2024 Collaboration of the Year for their work on the Peninsula Pride Farms Sustainability Project. Field to Market: The Alliance for Sustainable Agriculture® is a diverse group of grower organizations; agribusinesses; food, feed, beverage, restaurant and retail companies; conservation groups; universities and public sector partners that focus on defining, measuring and advancing the sustainability of food; feed, fiber and fuel production. This award recognizes outstanding collaboration and cross-sector partnership in advancing continuous improvement of sustainability at the field and landscape level.
The PPF Sustainability Project, in its fourth year, involved 11 farms managing over 34,000 acres and 40,000 head of dairy cattle in Door and Kewaunee Counties, Wis. The project will be completed next year with five years of data collection and analysis.
The farmers involved in this project use sustainability metrics to inform their farm management decisions. They have demonstrated continuous improvement in sustainability and water quality. Key findings from the PPF Sustainability Project year four results can be found here.
Data is based on analysis by Houston Engineering Inc. using Field to Market: The Alliance for Sustainable Agriculture’s Fieldprint Platform®.
“Collaborating with Houston Engineering to support members of Peninsula Pride in driving positive change is making a great impact, and the data continues to prove that,” Lauren Brey, Farmers for Sustainable Food managing director, said. “We’re honored to receive this award and incredibly proud of the farmers who are committed to measuring conservation progress and making improvements.”
In addition to PPF’s project, two other award recipients were honored by Field to Market.
Learn more about Field to Market and the 2024 Sustainability Leadership Awards at www.fieldtomarket.org/awards.
