FAQ

AgSpire works across food and agriculture value chains to build resilience and deliver sustainable outcomes. We partner with leading companies and organizations to design and implement sustainability programs that are beneficial for farmers and ranchers, credible for the companies, and impactful for the environment.

We take a producer-centric approach, utilizing our team’s deep first-hand experience with production agriculture to design practical programs and provide technical assistance that helps farmers and ranchers advance their operational goals through our programs.

AgSpire’s producer network is a free, no commitment network for farmers and ranchers around the country interested in adding or expanding their use of sustainable practices – like perennial seedings, holistic grazing, cover crops, no-till, nutrient management, and more.

Through this network, AgSpire offers voluntary programs that combine technical assistance and incentives for those practices to build resiliency and value within farms and ranches. Once you’ve joined the network, one of our Producer Programs Advisors will work with you to understand your operation and goals, giving suggestions for programs that will help accomplish those goals.

If one of our current programs is not a good fit for you operation at this time, we will share future opportunities through our email list (add info@agspire.com to your safe sender’s list to receive our emails). Additionally, with the information in your Producer Profile, our Producer Programs Advisors will share customized recommendations when a new program might be a better fit.

Signing up with AgSpire and enrolling in any of our programs is completely free for farmers and ranchers.

We leverage partnerships with companies and organizations to develop and implement programs, allowing us to offer technical assistance and resources to producers at no cost.

No, none of our programs are carbon offset programs.

Instead, we work with companies and organizations who are looking to support producers and generate sustainable outcomes. All programs are voluntary, many with short-term contracts, and include cost-share or market premiums to help add or expand sustainable practices on the ground.

Any carbon reductions or removals generated through our programs are not sold as credits outside of the supply chain, as is the case in traditional carbon credit programs.

By offering multiple programs instead of one-size-fits-all solutions, AgSpire is able to offer program options for many different kinds of operations: big and small, across the country, and a variety of commodities.

Some programs offer a different incentive structure or resources for Historically Underserved producers. We currently use the FSA definition and a self-reporting system.

Historically Underserved, includes Limited Resource and Socially Disadvantaged Farmers or Ranchers. Additionally, some programs offer benefits for beginning farmers and ranchers, at least 50% female farm or ranch ownership, veterans, and small producers, generally receiving less than $350,000 in annual gross cash farm income.

Our advisors will work with you to understand your operation and determine program eligibility. Instances that prohibit a producer from enrolling in a program might include:

• Ineligibility to receive farm payments from FSA
• Acres are enrolled in a carbon program that claims outcomes
• Acres are enrolled in a federal, state or local program that are incentivizing for the same practice the producer is looking to complete
• Producer doesn’t meet other requirements set forth by specific programs, for example geographical location or production type

Your Program Advisor will work with you to understand what programs you are currently enrolled in and determine compatibility with the programs we offer. Programs that incentivize the same practice for the same acre or animal typically cannot be stacked.

We take data privacy very seriously. Each contract contains our privacy policy – in which we agree to not share producer information outside of program reporting requirements.

For each of the programs offered in our network, AgSpire manages payments to producers. Once contract conditions are met and practices have been verified (usually through a verification visit, testing for outcomes, and/or physical verification such as receipts), AgSpire will make payments to producers, which are distributed quarterly.