CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Saving Tomorrow’s Agriculture Resources (STAR) announces the release of its 2023 Annual Report.
Says Caroline Wade, STAR Executive Director, “Looking back on 2023, I want to celebrate the progress we’ve made in establishing a new national organization and the partners who have made that progress possible. National STAR formally launched in September 2023, and in four short (and busy!) months pulled together a strong, collaborative, and proven team of passionate staff and partners who have hit the ground running.
We’ve been busy refining the STAR framework, tools, and strategies to offer more support and resources for producers and conservation partners to best fit their needs. We know from the work of our current state STAR Affiliates that a successful path must be locally led, producer-focused, scientifically sound, and flexible enough to accommodate the risks that come with change, the trials, and errors.
We continue to celebrate producer success but also the process of learning, which encourages incremental steps forward. We are grateful for the hard work and stewardship of STAR farmers and ranchers and the enthusiastic support of stakeholders and funders in Affiliate states and all across the US that have been promoting and encouraging STAR’s vision and expansion.
Thank you to our state Affiliate colleagues, STAR staff, contractors, supporters, and funders for your hard work and ongoing support.”
Download the report from STAR’s website
About Saving Tomorrow’s Agriculture Resources (STAR)
Saving Tomorrow’s Agriculture Resources (STAR) is a national, non-profit organization that helps farmers and ranchers adopt, evaluate, and benefit from voluntary conservation practices on their agricultural lands. Through its network of state Affiliates and partners, the organization collaboratively tailors its innovative STAR framework to connect producers with tools, resources, and reward programs to grow conservation implementation at scale across all types of agriculture.
Created for producers by producers, the STAR Tool is a simple, free, and confidential resource that generates a 1-to-5 STAR rating to evaluate conservation progress on individual fields and provides tailored recommendations and resources to enable conservation progress. STAR ratings are guided by science and expertise to address local resource concerns. The nationally standardized 1-5 scale gives producers and partners a clear and credible pathway to incentivize and reward conservation practice adoption – no matter where producers are on their conservation journey.
Learn more at STARconservation.org
— Saving Tomorrow’s Agriculture Resources
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