Professional Services

“By working with SureHarvest to implement the Healthy Grown eco-label program, we moved growers along the sustainability continuum.”

– Mike Carter, former Executive Director of WI Potato and Vegetable Assn, current CEO, Bushman Potatoes

As an innovation catalyst for the agrifood supply chain, the SureHarvest Professional Services team will deliver cutting-edge insight, practical strategies and proven performance to lead your organization on the path of sustainability.

As a co-founder of the Stewardship Index for Specialty Crops, SureHarvest is engaged in creating metrics for sustainability performance throughout the fresh produce supply chain. The Stewardship Index is developing metrics for air quality, biodiversity and habitat, community, energy, GHG emissions, human resources, plant nutrients, packaging, pesticides, soil quality, waste, water quality, and water use, that will quantify stewardship outcomes (e.g. units of energy used per yield of harvest). 

The metrics will be pilot tested with supply chain partners in 2009-2010 to demonstrate that using sustainability metrics can improve conservation performance and provide value to supply chain participants by communicating meaningful data to buyers. Walmart has indicated it will rely upon the Stewardship Index metrics for its Sustainability Index.

By combining our experience of creating on-farm innovations and adoption of sustainable farming practices with our knowledge of the agrifood supply chain and sustainability performance metrics, our Professional Services team can work with you to create a sustainability value chain, from the retail consumer level back to the farmgate.

We are

• Designers of sustainability programs
• Architects of information technology
• Scientists with practical farming knowledge
• Facilitators of multi-stakeholder collaboratives
• Trust-agents among farmers, environmental NGOs and agrifood companies
• Problem-solvers helping clients compete in the sustainability marketplace.

With over 20 years of experience in sustainable agriculture, the SureHarvest team can design and implement a performance-based sustainability program that is appropriate to your crop, industry, region and particular economic, environmental, and social issues.

We stand ready to collaborate with you to develop sustainability programs, measurement tools and verification programs to achieve competitive advantage in the sustainability marketplace.