ADM and Hill's take farm resilience into the pet food supply chain

Regenerative farming has been slow to reach the ingredient supply chains behind pet food. A new partnership between ADM and Hill's Pet Nutrition aims to change that – by taking measurable environmental improvements down to field level on the farms that grow the corn and soy used in pet food recipes.

The two companies announced their multi-year collaboration at Interzoo, targeting farms in Illinois and Minnesota in the U.S. as well as Hungary in Europe. The stated goal: to expand the benefits of regenerative agriculture to crops within the pet food value chain, while giving local farmers the tools and incentives to make lasting changes for soil and watershed health, biodiversity and farm resilience.

In concrete terms, the initiative is designed to engage, educate and incentivise farmers across roughly 16,000 acres (6.475 hectares) of corn and soybean fields in Minnesota and Illinois, plus…