Empowering the Agricultural Supply Chain
Ultimately, yes; however, to credibly communicate the environmental impacts of agronomic changes, Field to Market has established protocols regarding the use of results from the Fieldprint Platform. These protocols include requiring organizations to join Field to Market and registering a Fieldprint Project.
Currently, the Fieldprint Platform can produce analysis for certain crops grown in the contiguous United States.
We are constantly expanding our portfolio to meet member needs. Adding a new commodity crop involves a rigorous process to ensure your sustainability metrics are robust.
The process includes developing crop-specific data references, updating our modeling architecture, and ensuring alignment with soil carbon and soil erosion models.
Members can fund these additions through a combination of annual dues and supplemental project funding. We also encourage multiple organizations to partner and invest jointly so as to make these Fieldprint Platform improvements more cost-effective for all interested parties.
Please contact our team to discuss the timeline and technical requirements for your specific commodity.
The Fieldprint Platform is available for anyone to use, free of charge at calculator.fieldtomarket.org. The tool is also available through qualified data management partners, embedded as a value-added service to their farm management software. Some of these data partners may charge a fee to access their software.
Entering data for the first time could take from 30 minutes to 1.5 hours per field, depending on the complexity of the farm management practices; users report that completing a crop interval for a field gets much easier with practice. The calculations themselves are typically completed within a minute or two.
While Field to Market does not provide data entry assistance, we do support Fieldprint Project Administrators and Implementation Partners as they work with individual growers. We offer Platform training sessions for Field to Market members, provide demos of the Platform for organizations looking to join Field to Market and maintain a support website that helps walk growers through the data entry process. Please see data entry support in User Support section of this website.
Though the tool is free and publicly available, organizations must join Field to Market to access all data and project management features, and to get direct support from Field to Market staff. General information regarding why sustainability matters for each indicator and how to improve your score are generated for each Fieldprint Analysis.
The FSA is a global sustainability assessment developed by SAI Platform and used by food and drink companies to evaluate on-farm performance across environmental, social, and economic practices. The Fieldprint® Platform has been benchmarked against the FSA and is aligned to FSA Gold Level, the highest possible rating. Growers in a Fieldprint Project that has enabled the Equivalency Module can go a step further and earn verified FSA Bronze, Silver, or Gold for their project by answering a 22-question module in addition to the Fieldprint Analysis they already complete. See SAI Platform Alignment for the full picture.