STUTTGART, Ark. – Riceland Meals, Inc. and Hill’s Pet Diet announce a brand new collaboration to incentivize Riceland farmer-members to develop rice utilizing climate-smart practices as a part of the 2024 Riceland Carbon Prepared program.

The Riceland-Hill’s Pet Diet Sustainable Rice Program will give attention to serving to Riceland farmer-members overcome obstacles to adopting environmentally-friendly practices. Hill’s Pet Diet will obtain Scope 3 Greenhouse Gasoline (GHG) emission reductions that consequence from the up to date farming practices by taking part Riceland farmer-members.

Riceland Vice President of Authorities Affairs & Sustainability Adam Shea mentioned this collaboration will proceed the expansion and momentum the Riceland’s Carbon Prepared Program has acquired because the program launched in 2022.

“Whereas farmers are continually adapting their manufacturing practices to do extra with much less, the razor-thin margins they’re confronted with amplify the danger of fixing an excessive amount of, too quickly. That’s the place applications just like the Riceland-Hill’s Pet Diet Sustainable Rice program come into play,” Shea mentioned. “The power to quantify the environmental impression generated by way of these practices and use them to assist our prospects obtain their local weather objectives creates a win-win for everybody concerned.”

Riceland’s partnership with Arva Intelligence makes it potential to quantify Scope 3 GHG emission reductions. As a valued accomplice of the Riceland Carbon Prepared program, Arva Intelligence will quantify the carbon reductions related to the varied sustainable farm practices within the Riceland-Hill’s Pet Diet Sustainable Rice Program to offer the proof factors to assist Hill’s obtain its objectives to cut back their Scope 3 GHG emissions by 42% by 2030.

“Hill’s Pet Diet continues to reinforce operations to supply high-quality pet vitamin with much less environmental impression,” Bas Tabak, senior director of direct procurement for Hill’s Pet Diet, mentioned. “We’re actively collaborating with our suppliers, like Riceland Meals, to establish methods to decrease the carbon footprint throughout varied substances, together with rice, whereas additionally discovering methods to assist farmers as they transition to environmentally-friendly farming practices.”

The Riceland-Arva Intelligence partnership was established in 2022, and it has been key to the Riceland Carbon Prepared Program success.

“It’s an honor to serve Riceland members and their shoppers with an impactful sustainability answer that rewards farmers for his or her environmentally useful stewardship and helps firms like Hill’s Pet Diet to fulfill their company emission discount objectives,” Arva Co-Founder and CEO Jay McEntire mentioned. “We’re proud that Riceland Carbon Prepared program and partnership has develop into one of many main sustainability applications that gives a win-win answer throughout the availability chain.”

The Riceland Carbon Prepared Program is the gateway program for the cooperative’s farmer members to develop into eligible for incentives for sustainable practices on farm. For extra data concerning the Riceland- Hill’s Pet Diet Sustainable Rice Program partnership and the Riceland Carbon Prepared Program, please contact Ashten Adamson at [email protected].