As global efforts to reduce global warming accelerate, taking a full value chain approach to reducing the food industry’s impact is crucial, as it contributes an estimated 22% of global emissions. While the majority of emissions occur during the on-farm stage of the product lifecycle, until now food companies have struggled to account for investments into regenerative farming practices and carbon removals, due to several challenges.
Fragmented tools and lack of data interoperability
Producers often aren’t able to provide consistent farm-level data, and are faced with multiple tools and services when trying to translate the data from farm to shelf. Downstream buyers aren’t able to integrate this data into their own carbon accounting for the multi-ingredient products or materials that they sell or buy.
Consistent methodology between product and corporate carbon accounting
Sustainability teams need to understand the impact of farming practices at the ingredient, product, and portfolio level in order to more strategically engage their supply chain partners, identify reduction opportunities, and communicate sustainability impact. Reducing impact requires both insight into what’s happening on the farms as well as an ability to quantify the impact using a consistent methodology for corporate and product carbon accounting.
What is FieldScope?
FieldScope by HowGood is the first solution that translates on-farm growing practices into product footprinting and corporate accounting. FieldScope enables real-time measurement and modeling of farming practices, powered by the Cool Farm Tool. It enables food companies to incorporate farm-level data into their product carbon footprints (PCFs), corporate carbon accounting and abatement strategies. With FieldScope, you can:
Quantify the impact of farm-level practices
Uncover reduction opportunities
Collaborate and offer abatement recommendations to suppliers
Get the most accurate product carbon footprint
Ensure maximum granularity for your key ingredients
Streamline the process for suppliers to surface farm-level practices, without tapping into multiple tools and services
Communicate the impact of sustainable practices and programs publicly
Accurately account for regenerative practices and carbon removals to get credit for your investments
Ensure your carbon removals reporting complies with corporate accounting standards
Get credit for investments you’ve made in sustainable farming practices
How it works
FieldScope is currently available for select broad acre, row crops and perennial crops, with more crops coming soon!
There are two options for integrating farm-level data with FieldScope:
Collecting farm-level data and entering it into FieldScope
Collecting farm-level data and entering it into FieldScope
Latis customers with the FieldScope add-on can incorporate farm-level data directly into Latis on the product impact page.
On the product impact page, hover over an ingredient and select Submit agricultural data.
Follow the prompts to input data for each of the FieldScope categories. The Crop Details and Farm Settings fields are mandatory, whilst the remaining fields are optional.
Select Submit to submit your data.
Requesting farm-level data from suppliers via SupplierConnect
Requesting farm-level data from suppliers via SupplierConnect
You can also request farm-level data from your suppliers using SupplierConnect - HowGood’s free tool that allows suppliers to securely and accurately measure and share product carbon footprints with their customers.
How to get access to FieldScope
FieldScope is available as an add-on - contact your Customer Success Manager at [email protected] to find out more.
Frequently Asked Questions
What happens if I don’t have all the data points requested in FieldScope? Should I leave the field blank?
What happens if I don’t have all the data points requested in FieldScope? Should I leave the field blank?
If you leave a field blank when entering your agricultural data into FieldScope, we will assume that input or practice was not used in the production of the crop and exclude it from our calculations. For example: if you left the fertilizer field blank, we would assume that no fertilizer was used in growing the crop.
Will incorporating farm-level data improve my product’s carbon footprint?
Will incorporating farm-level data improve my product’s carbon footprint?
Incorporating farm-level data doesn’t guarantee that your product’s carbon footprint will be reduced. Studies have shown that there can be a 50-fold difference in impact between producers of the same crop, attributable to the agricultural practices used. While incorporating farm-level data will produce a more accurate impact assessment, the impact will be driven by the specific agricultural practices used and could be a positive or negative change to your product’s previous impact assessment.