It will take two to three years for a baseline, but much was accomplished in the pilot program. In 2021, the U.S. peanut industry came together to fund an effort to document, track and communicate the sustainability of U.S. peanut production, startingat the field level with farmers themselves. Since then, the Sustainable U.S. Peanuts Initiative, managed by the American Peanut Council, created a platform to help growers document and measure their environmental footprint and enrolled an initial groupof 69 farmers for the pilot year.
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