More strip-till news now. Compeer Financial and PepsiCo partnered on a pilot leasing program to help farmers interested in strip-till offset the costs of new equipment. We caught up with Landon Frye from Compeer Financial for more on this new initiative.

“Yeah, over the past 10 months, PepsiCo and Compeer Financial have worked on a pilot program to deploy their regenerative capital and they make all kinds of investments across US agriculture, but to deploy a specific test where the incentive was tied to the financing of the equipment and we really honed them in on strip tillage specifically. One, it allows for their environmental practices to be measured and managed and meets those standards that they have. But two, and in our research and probably reading some of the things that you guys put out, there was a lot of demand for it organically for farmers via lower inputs, via fewer passes over the field. And that pairing of a technology farmers are chomping at the bid at, so to speak, with something that aligns with what food companies want to achieve, felt like the right place to deploy a million dollars.”

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