About Regenerative Minimum Standards for Retail Food Claims
These industry stakeholder workgroup sessions will help draf a guide for retailer buyers to use when reviewing retail food product packaging that displays regenerative claims. It is important to provide a clear decision tree based on what inputs and practices are reported by the brand.
As our work groups sessions unfold, we now turn to how regenerative seed development, sourcing, and sharing is managed. It’s imperative to know how seed is grown, how traits are maintained, and how local lines are made widely available. Mutation, modification, and patents will be considered. Community and environmental outcomes are key. Here is a breakdown of the topics to be covered: Part 1 Humans have managed to survive 12,000 years by selecting and saving seeds to replant for future har...
8 Oct 2026
GMOs and New Genetic Techniques
This session on regenerative agriculture production builds on previous conversations about Synthetics, Soil Health and Fertility, Compost, Manure, and Cover Crops, Tillage, Ruminant Livestock, and Dairy Production by asking what are the best practices - and worst practices - when managing a regenerative system. Our panelists are practitioners with skills honed from decades of experimentation and learning. They also bring cautionary tales of shortcuts and unpredicted outcomes. Part 1 GMO is ev...
17 Sept 2026
Dairy Production
Please join us for this stakeholder session on Minimum Regenerative Standards for retail food claims. This session will focus on regenerative dairy production. Guest panelists include Dr. Meg Cattell (CSU), Phil Forbes (Kalona) and Phyllis Van Amburgh (Dharma Lea). Pics and bios below. As our work groups sessions unfold, we now turn to how regenerative dairy production is managed. It's imperative to know how feed is grown, how pastures and paddocks are maintained, and how milking, pasturing, ...
27 Aug 2026
Hogs and Poultry Production
Please join us for our next stakeholder session on Minimum Regenerative Standards for retail food claims. This session will focus on regenerative hog and poultry production. Guest panelists are Reginaldo Haslett-Marroquin of Tree Range Farms, Heidi Diestel of Diestel Turkey, and Greg Gunthorp of Gunthrop Family Farms. Pics and bios below. As our work groups sessions unfold, we now turn to how regenerative hog and poultry production is managed from start to finish. It's imperative to know feed...
8 Aug 2026
Compost, Manure and Cover Crops
Please join us for our next stakeholder session on Minimum Regenerative Standards for retail food claims. This session will focus on Compost, Manure and Cover Crops. Panelists with bios are below. As our work groups sessions unfold, we now turn to sources of fertility such as compost, manure, cover crops and green manure. It’s imperative to know where these materials come from, how they are grown, and how they are incorporated into the cropping system. Just because it’s organic matter does no...
8 Aug 2026
Tillage and Cultivation
Please join us for our next stakeholder session on Minimum Regenerative Standards for retail food claims. This session will focus on tillage and cultivation practices. Guest panelists are Dr. Kris Nichols, W.B Brown, and Dr. Anna Jones-Crabtree (see bios below). As our work groups sessions unfold, we now turn to how soil is treated and conditioned. It’s imperative to know how soil disturbance is applied in the overall system for weed control, reversing compaction, increasing water infiltratio...
8 Aug 2026
Ruminant Livestock Management
Please join us for our next stakeholder session on Minimum Regenerative Standards for retail food claims. This session will focus on ruminant livestock production. Guest panelists include Carrie Richards of Richards Regenerative, Matt Maier of Thousand Hills, Dawn Sherman of the Tanka Fund, and Lucille Contreras of Texas Tribal Buffalo Project. As our work groups sessions unfold, we now turn to how ruminant livestock in managed from birth to slaughter. It’s imperative to know feed is grown, h...
8 Aug 2026
Soil Health and Fertility
In our session on synthetic inputs, it was clear that the use of synthetic nitrogen and pesticides was not an allowable practice in regenerative systems. Both panelists and attendees concluded a properly designed system did not need to rely on these materials, and in fact would be damaged by their use. This session on soil health builds on this approach by asking, where does fertility in a regenerative system come from? What materials can be used to increase fertility and soil function?...
7 Aug 2026
Synthetic Fertilizers and Pesticides
IFOAM North America and key food retailers are hosting a series of conversations on regenerative agriculture topics to work towards an industry consensus on minimum regenerative standards. The primary focus is to ensure that grocery shoppers can confidently choose products bearing a regenerative claim without being misled or confused. We seek to enable gatekeeper retailers to evaluate potentially substandard claims so only bona fide regenerative products are for sale on their shelves. ...
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