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Testing Regen Farmers Mutual new AI-assistant GREG. GREG stands for Geospatial Reasoning Engine. But, in front of that big brain, Greg, speaks to farmers, and lets them talk. Whilst the farmer talks GREG is doing Land Management Unit analysis to identify relevant funding opportunities. It's pretty schnazzy for a farmer-owned piece of technology.

Why and how Australian Sustainability Reporting Standards will affect farmers. #ASRS #sustainability #emissions #reporting

It was wonderful to celebrate the launch of the Windharp Horizons' Landscape Action Plan in St Arnaud recently, developed as part of the New Futures for Victorian Landcare project. Well done to working group, who deserve a huge congratulations on their hard work in getting their plan finalised and launched! Thanks to our project partners Regen Farmers Mutual, Sustainable Farms and Landscape Finance Lab for supporting the group along the journey. Thanks also to our funders, The Ian Potter Foundation and Natural Resources Conservation Trust for their generous support. Read more on our website: https://bit.ly/41jEyMI

Windharp is the nickname of the Buloke Tree. It’s thanks to the noise made when the wind blows through the slender leaves of this slow growing and rare hard wood tree. Regenerating these trees across the Horizon and landscape is 1 of 8 strategies identified locally by this grain-growing region of Victoria. Regen Farmers Mutual is incredibly proud of the Windharp Horizon project. The work of pulling this together has been supported by Landcare Victoria Inc. Sustainable Farms Landscape Finance Lab. The hard work was done by Marney Durie, Andrew Borg, Luke Batters, Dougal McAllister, Eleanor Fox, Maddie Grant, Jordy Howell who did such a good job over the last 6month as a working team. The launch of their Landscape Strategy was a great event. To find out more watch https://lnkd.in/eztJGjqq and check out their Landscape Story https://lnkd.in/eNrTC-tw

Working together to restore the Granite to Goulburn landscape in Victoria, Australia.

Regen Farmers Mutual is doing an event called Farm Biodiversity Market Update and the topics 1. Box Gum Grassy Woodland (BGGW): certification and credit scheme 2. Nature Positive Markets 3. Stacking 4. TNFD, Supply Chain and Metrics for Biodiversity https://lnkd.in/e9USYYzy

Which way do you see the world going? A world where commodity specific sustainability reporting becomes the normal or a world where landscape specific regeneration is incentivised by the commodities that draw from each region. My fear is common-sense will not be commonplace. The best way to be Nature Positive is by taking actions suitable to that landscape. Different contexts means different soils, vegetation, habitats, native species etc There are ~300 landscapes in Australia. A big but not astronomical number. Makes common-sense for these landscapes to each have a plan that supply chains can invest in, right? What is unfortunately a more likely scenario is each commodity will in their own echo chamber try to create one-size-fits-all sustainability reporting program for individual farmers based on the type of commodity grown. As commodities draw from many different landscapes. Each of which is bioregional in nature. This won’t work well. Now assume for some reason commodity-specific sustainability metrics are used in all regions and become the standard, what happens to farmers growing multiple commodities? Is it just more paperwork? or will their be conflicting incentives for land use? will there be problems of additionality and double-counting? What incentives get put in place to achieve a commodity-specific metric / sustainability report? Something pretty average. By that I mean, you’ll see a mass balance process that pays half and penalises half the growers in the industry. Commodity-specific has to be a blunt instrument using remote sensed data and industry averages to provide incentives to each commodity based off these averages. It will never provide the best ROI for those incentives. In other words it’s a waste of money to get average results. Now if landscapes each had a plan and were drawing from landscape context, the practices that make economic and environmental sense in that bioregion. You’d create something relevant. If you were actively connecting and coordinating farm level activities into a corridor, biosecurity effort or catchment level rehydration project - that would be much better. You could have commodities support the landscapes upon which they draw their supply. This can’t be that hard. Which way do you see the world going? At Regen Farmers Mutual we are keen on this conversation #landscapeimpact #supplyshed #agtech #traceability #sustainabilityreporting