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Pipeline foods is working with the Rabobank and other funders to design and implement transition finance products to help farmers transitioning to organic and beyond. A new podcast with Eric Jackson, CEO and founder of Pipeline Foods.

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I had again the great pleasure to interview Eric Jackson, the CEO and founder of Pipeline Foods.

Main take aways:

• Pipeline Foods kept investing in infrastructure for organic row broad acre cropping- Organic soy beans for export for the Far East, turned out to be a big growth market for Pipeline Foods
• Cleaner, processing much closer to the farm gate is the goal of Pipeline\xa0
• It's easier to help a current organic grower to expand than a new organic grower going through the transition\xa0
• Transition Finance, Pipeline foods is working with two banks providing operating loans to farmers starting their organic transition. One of those banks is Rabobank who designed a transition finance product specific for farmers to transition to organic
• Pipeline Food provides the long term off take agreements to these farmers
• Some NGOs/institutions are potentially interested to come alongside the banks and de-risk some of these loans or this money can be pooled and bring down the interest rates for farmers
• It is relatively easy to have the discussion today as the conventional agriculture is suffering of low returns
• There is a Regenerative Organic Label, with the USDA organic as a base
• The movement against pesticides and herbicides is getting stronger
• One of the great myths is that organic needs to be more expensive. Maybe in the short term but the longer term probably not.
• We are what we eat, including the environment.

If Eric could change one thing overnight he would get away with glysofate and certain classes of herbicides.

www.investinginregenerativeagriculture.com/2019/06/25/eric-jackson-2.\xa0


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