US Cotton Trust Protocol - Smarter Conversations U.S. Cotton Trust Protocol

In this special edition of our Smarter Conversations podcast, we delve deeper into the data featured in the U.S. Cotton Trust Protocol’s 2023 Annual Report. The episode sheds light on the progress made by Trust Protocol growers to date and the potential that verified data holds for driving continuous improvement. Our Executive Director Daren Abney and Standards and Data Lead Dr. Deepika Deepika Mishra dive into the nuances of interpreting the data presented in the report and how the data is impacting the environmental footprint of cotton production.

This episode starts from a recent report from Transformers Foundation debunking myths on the lack of sustainability in the cotton industry. Dr. Jesse Daystar, Vice President and Chief Sustainability Officer at Cotton Incorporated and special advisor to the U.S. Cotton Trust Protocol, Andrew Olah, Founder of Transformers Foundation, and Marzia Lanfranchi, Cotton Advisor at Transformers Foundation, explain why the U.S. Cotton Trust Protocol provides higher certainty on sustainability performance and why programs of this kind are the way to go.

This episode shows how cotton can contribute to global ambitions to reduce greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs). Deepika Mishra, Global Sustainability Manager, National Cotton Council of America, and John Lindamood, a cotton grower from Tennessee, explain how the U.S. Cotton Trust Protocol supports the reduction in GHGs.

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This episode explores in depth the ways technological innovations and precision agriculture help Trust Protocol growers achieve their goals. It covers the full crop cycle of cotton and sees two growers – Aaron Barcellos from California and Nathan Reed from Arkansas – exchanging best practices and sharing what kind of innovative methods and technologies they use to plant their crops, to track their progress and to reduce the use of agricultural inputs.

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This episode explores how sustainable practices in cotton production are helping to promote biodiversity. Sledge Taylor and Marshall Hardwick explain why, as cotton growers, biodiversity is important to them and why growers care about it. Topics explored include regenerative agriculture, conservation tillage, habitat preservation, cover crops and pesticide use.

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In this episode we talk about the importance of water for growing cotton and how the Trust Protocol is helping growers improve their water management practices. Dr. Jesse Daystar, Vice President and Chief Sustainability Officer at Cotton Incorporated and advisor to the U.S. Cotton Trust Protocol and Dr. Kris Johnson, Interim Director of Agriculture for North America at The Nature Conservancy, discuss how measurement and tracking can encourage better use of water, therefore making cotton production more sustainable.

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