Advancing Agriculture to Address Climate Change

There's a scalable climate solution where farmers are the heroes. It’s backed by technology, driven by innovation, and supports sustainability across the supply chain. It will differentiate your company's environmental and social good strategy.

Invest in the Farming We Need

By adopting beneficial practices, farmers can reduce and sequester carbon dioxide, while enriching their soil. Your company can directly support the farmers starting to act on this unique, scalable climate solution that will continue to advance with deployment and ongoing scientific collaboration.

Monitor. Quantify.
Verify. Reward.

Indigo worked with the Climate Action Reserve and Verra – through their Verified Carbon Standard (VCS) program – to help develop innovative methodologies for monitoring, quantifying, verifying, and reporting net on-farm greenhouse gas emissions reductions and removals. The methodologies are the first to allow for affordable long-term monitoring of on-farm emissions, abatement, and carbon removal.

Catalyzing Carbon Farming

Adopting practices such as cover crops and reduced tillage can improve the health of farmers’ soil, their bottom line, and ultimately the planet. By investing in Indigo Carbon, you are providing the financing to help make that possible.

Meet the Farmers

Get to know some of the thousands of farmers who have started using beneficial practices that improve their profitability and help make agriculture a distinguished, nature-based climate solution.

Ray Sneed

Tennessee

Ray and his brothers focus on sustainability, he says, because if you can maintain your yield while using less inputs and synthetics, you can also regenerate your land in the process. With cover crops, the Sneeds have been able to cut back on irrigation, fertilizer, and equipment costs. A five-way cover crop blend just planted on their farm has led to a positive response Ray has never seen before in his 50+ years of experience: his non-irrigated corn hasn't stressed once this year.

"We are looking for ways to use regeneration – especially with cover crops – to maximize that output. If you can make your business thrive without putting as many chemicals in, then you are going to end up making a more profitable crop."

Beneficial practices: Cover CropsNo-till

Kasey Bryant Bamberger

Ohio 19,000 acres

On her family’s farm in Ohio, Kasey uses digital technology and natural microbiology to enrich her soil and produce a healthier crop. They may be in their first year of using cover crops and no-till, but this experience with the latest tools serves them well as they implement regenerative farming practices and reduce inputs. They have already seen a large-scale weed reduction.

"Consumers are challenging our industry to do better, and we're answering that call."

Beneficial practices: No-tillCover CropsReduced Inputs

Mike Bretz

Iowa 500 acres

After a long career in food supply “making breakfast cereal,” Mike Bretz came back to the family farm with an insight: agriculture offers one of the most immediate ways to address climate change. He had been listening to the book Dirt to Soil a dozen times while riding around in his tractor. Mike jumped in, feet first: all 500 acres into regenerative practices, planting cover crops last fall and going for another round this spring. He’s testing for water infiltration and carbon stocks in his soil come the summer, building on his soil organic matter and reaping the benefits.

"We just need to change our mindset and utilize what the earth gives us in agriculture. More carbon in the soil will create healthy soils, bring back the biology, and create a more resilient system. And while we are at it, we can help save the earth.”

Beneficial practices No-tillCover CropsReduced Inputs

Adam Chappell

Arkansas 8,000 acres

A non-believer in the common phrase, “we’ve always done it this way,” fourth-generation farmer Adam Chappell saw rapidly-changing environmental conditions on his farm as an opportunity to change the way he farmed. He has planted cover crops, implemented a no-till system, ditched synthetic fertilizers and pesticides, and focused on the health of his soil—which is now rich with carbon, earthworms, and life. Adam’s continually expanding adoption of regenerative farming methods not only improved his crops, but reduced his input costs and helped his farm become one of the top yielding farms in the area.

"We were going to change the way we farmed completely or we were going to change jobs. It was time to change the way we farmed."

Beneficial practices: Reduced InputsNo-tillCrop RotationsCover Crops

Unlocking the potential of agriculture

Indigo Carbon supports farmers in their transition to more sustainable practices, delivering technological solutions and sponsor investments to reduce and sequester carbon dioxide into agricultural soils.

Step 1

Farmers can earn additional revenue by farming carbon

Farmers enroll in Indigo Carbon, then implement practices to reduce carbon emissions and increase soil carbon.

Step 2

Climate impact is quantified

Net changes in greenhouse gas emissions and soil carbon levels from those practices are calculated by Indigo. Carbon credits are independently verified, validated, and issued by a leading carbon registry.

Step 3

Supporters connect with farmers

By purchasing farmer credits, supporting companies catalyze climate and community impact while meeting their sustainability goals.

Step 4

Farmers and rural communities thrive

Farmers use additional revenue from credits as an incentive to adopt practices faster, boosting their bottom line and climate impact.

The Indigo Carbon program provides verified, nature-based credits to companies while supporting farmers in their transition towards more beneficial agriculture

1. Farmers make practice changes

By adding new or intensifying practices, farmers improve their soil health. Agronomists support farmers through the transition.

2. Carbon credit verification

Soil samples and on-farm data are collected and anonymized then securely shared with our third-party verifiers.

3. Supporters purchase credits

Indigo facilitates the payout process delivering the majority of the price directly to the farmer.

Carbon Supporters

Companies are committing to agriculture

Ranging from life sciences to finance, consulting to brewing, there are companies who have made their commitment to farmers and the climate known.

We are pleased to offer Indigo carbon offsets on the Cool Effect platform. We value Indigo's pioneering work with the Climate Action Reserve and Verra to quantify carbon sequestration in soil as well as its goals to teach and promote beneficial, sustainable agricultural practices that help both the farmer and mother earth.

Dee Lawrence

Co-Founder, Cool Effect

Indigo’s approach to changing and improving farming by adjusting long-standing farming practice while revolutionizing how crops are managed inspired me to think bigger about solutions to fight climate change. At Epiphany Malt, the small grains we use are the foundation to our excellence in malting. We want to start where it matters most to us, in the field.

Sebastian Wolfrum

Founder & Director of Malting & Roasting Operations, Epiphany Craft Malt

We are proud to partner with Indigo Ag as another key milestone in our purposeful journey to becoming the most sustainable protein company on earth. The potential for carbon sequestration through regenerative agriculture is game changing for global climate action. As a carbon neutral company, Maple Leaf Foods is committed to creating a more sustainable food system by investing in high-impact environmental projects and supporting local farmers as they harness the power of agriculture to meaningfully reduce greenhouse gases globally.

Michael McCain

President & CEO, Maple Leaf Foods

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All figures are examples based on specific assumptions that may not be applicable to all land. A number of variables can affect outcomes on any particular land. Indigo does not guarantee any results with respect to agronomic outcomes, financial or profitability outcomes, carbon dioxide equivalents sequestered, carbon credits generated or amount or eligibility of payments with respect to any individual landowner or operator. Website for promotional purposes only. Additional terms apply.

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Invest in the Farming We Need

Monitor. Quantify.Verify. Reward.

Catalyzing Carbon Farming

Meet the Farmers

Ray Sneed

Kasey Bryant Bamberger

Mike Bretz

Adam Chappell

Unlocking the potential of agriculture

Farmers can earn additional revenue by farming carbon

Climate impact is quantified

Supporters connect with farmers

Farmers and rural communities thrive

The Indigo Carbon program provides verified, nature-based credits to companies while supporting farmers in their transition towards more beneficial agriculture

Companies are committing to agriculture

Maple Leaf Foods

BCG

Barclays

New Belgium Brewing Company

Shopify

Blue Bottle Coffee

JPMorgan Chase

Heidrick & Struggles

Cool Effect

Givewith

The North Face

Epiphany Malt

Dogfish Head Craft Brewery