Farmers Edge Inc. and Gevo Inc. have entered a collaboration as part of Gevo's Climate- Smart Farm-to-Flight project that utilizes funding from a U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) grant. Launched in 2023, Gevo's Climate-Smart Farm-to-Flight project is aimed at tracking and quantifying the carbon-intensity impact of climate-smart practices while creating market incentives for low carbon-intensity (CI) corn to help accelerate production of Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) and low-CI ethanol. Farmers Edge has already been working with growers in Canada on carbon-intensity programs for the past 3 years and will bring their experience to the recruitment and education aspects of the project.

Collaborating with growers across three states, Farmers Edge will support in the data capture associated with the qualifying sustainability practices and calculation of field-level CI scores. With hands-on training and support, participating growers will have access to the company's market-leading platform, FarmCommand®?, and decades of agricultural expertise to provide the necessary reporting required for the project. Farmers Edge is committed to helping growers be the best by digitizing their operations and telling their sustainability story through data.

This data will then be provided to Gevo who will use their Verity Tracking platform to track the CI of the feedstocks from the field through the biofuel production. The three locations for the program include Council Bluffs, Iowa, Lake Preston, South Dakota, and The Standing Rock Reservation. The Climate-Smart Farm-to -Flight project is supported by a $30 million grant from the USDA's Climate-Smart initiative.