Food System Resilience ADM’s Fourth Regenerative Agriculture Report Highlights Global Progress
ADM (NYSE: ADM), a global leader in nutrition and agricultural solutions, has released its fourth annual regenerative agriculture report, highlighting the company’s continued efforts to support farmers, strengthen agricultural supply chains and advance measurable environmental outcomes across key farming regions worldwide.
The latest report provides an overview of ADM’s regenerative agriculture programs during 2025 and outlines how collaboration among farmers, agricultural businesses, food companies and other value-chain partners is helping expand the adoption of regenerative farming practices. The company’s initiatives are designed to connect agricultural production with evolving market needs while supporting farmers as they work to improve soil health and strengthen the resilience of their operations.
“Resilience starts on the farm. By improving and protecting soil health, farmers can be better equipped to adapt to changing conditions and maintain productive operations,” said Greg Morris, SVP and President, Ag Services and Oilseeds, ADM. “That resilience can extend across the value chain, helping strengthen the food system we all depend on.”
Regenerative Agriculture Programs Reach More Farmers and Acres
According to ADM’s 2025 results, its regenerative agriculture programs engaged more than 56,000 farmers across approximately 4.6 million acres in 11 countries and covering 10 different crops.
The scale of these programs reflects ADM’s approach to regenerative agriculture as a value-chain effort rather than an initiative limited to individual farms. By working directly with producers and connecting them with customers and other partners, ADM aims to create opportunities for regenerative practices to become more widely adopted and sustained over time.
The company reported that its programs generated approximately 946,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent (CO₂e) reductions compared with regional benchmarks. These results represent the environmental outcomes associated with farming practices implemented through ADM’s regenerative agriculture programs.
Regenerative agriculture encompasses a range of farming approaches intended to improve soil health, support agricultural productivity and address environmental challenges. Depending on the region and crop, practices can include reducing soil disturbance, maintaining soil cover, improving crop diversity and implementing other techniques designed to enhance the long-term health and productivity of farmland.
ADM’s report provides insight into how these practices are being implemented across different agricultural landscapes and how the company is working to measure their outcomes.
Connecting Farmers With Emerging Low-Carbon Markets
ADM also views regenerative agriculture as an opportunity to respond to changing customer expectations and the growing demand for agricultural commodities associated with environmental improvements.
“ADM views agriculture as a powerful way to meet evolving customer needs, and our work in regenerative agriculture demonstrates ways in which we are uniquely positioned to connect agricultural production with lower-carbon markets at scale,” Morris added.
This approach places farmers at the center of the value chain while also creating opportunities for downstream companies to participate in agricultural sustainability initiatives. ADM works to connect participating farmers with technical support, incentives and customers seeking commodities produced through regenerative agriculture programs.
Such connections can help address one of the challenges associated with scaling regenerative agriculture: creating a business environment in which farmers have access to the resources, knowledge and market demand needed to maintain new practices over the long term.
Expanding Collaboration Across the Agricultural Value Chain
During the reporting period, ADM continued expanding its partnerships with companies seeking to advance regenerative agriculture. Among its collaborations are initiatives involving PepsiCo and Mars, as well as General Mills and Walmart.
These partnerships bring together multiple participants in the agricultural supply chain, including farmers, ADM and downstream food and consumer companies. The collaborative model is intended to help increase the scale of regenerative agriculture while creating value for participants across the supply chain.
The partnerships also demonstrate the growing role of cross-industry cooperation in agricultural sustainability. Rather than addressing farming practices independently, companies can work together to establish programs that connect on-farm implementation with customer demand and broader environmental objectives.
ADM’s collaboration with downstream businesses is part of its broader strategy to develop agricultural systems that can respond to both producer needs and changing market expectations.
Global Programs Across Multiple Agricultural Regions
ADM’s regenerative agriculture work spans several major agricultural regions, including North America, Latin America, Europe and Asia Pacific.
The company’s annual report provides updates on programs in these regions and highlights how regenerative agriculture approaches can differ according to local growing conditions, crops, farming systems and market structures.
The report also explains ADM’s global approach to regenerative agriculture, including the company’s definitions, principles and practices. By documenting its approach annually, ADM aims to provide greater transparency into the development and implementation of its programs.
The geographic diversity of the initiatives is significant because agricultural systems vary substantially around the world. Practices that are suitable for one region may require adaptation in another. ADM’s programs therefore focus on working with farmers and local partners to apply relevant approaches while tracking outcomes.
Technical Assistance and Farmer Engagement
Farmer participation is a central component of ADM’s regenerative agriculture strategy. The company’s programs provide participating producers with access to technical assistance and other resources intended to support the adoption and continued implementation of regenerative practices.
ADM also incorporates farmer feedback into its programs. The latest report includes insights from farmer surveys, providing additional information about producer experiences and perspectives.
Understanding farmers’ needs is particularly important because regenerative agriculture practices can involve changes in management, equipment, timing, inputs or other aspects of farm operations. Long-term adoption depends not only on environmental objectives but also on whether practices can function effectively within farmers’ individual operations.
By combining farmer engagement with data and technical support, ADM seeks to improve the effectiveness of its programs and identify opportunities to expand them.
Measuring Progress Through Data
Another important component of ADM’s annual reporting is the use of data to evaluate program performance. The company reports environmental outcomes against regional benchmarks and uses the results to provide insight into progress.
The approximately 946,000 metric tons of CO₂e reductions reported for 2025 are part of this measurement approach. ADM’s continued annual reporting allows the company to track changes in program participation, acreage, geographic reach and environmental outcomes over time.
The report also includes consumer research, providing a broader perspective on attitudes toward regenerative agriculture and sustainability. Combining farmer feedback with consumer insights can help companies better understand expectations throughout the food system.
Building Long-Term Resilience
ADM has published its annual regenerative agriculture report since 2023 as part of its effort to provide a transparent view of its programs, progress, results and partnerships.
The company says long-term progress will require regenerative agriculture to deliver value both on farms and throughout the broader agricultural value chain.
“For this progress to last, regenerative agriculture has to work on the farm and across the value chain,” Morris said. “That means listening to farmers, using data to understand outcomes and improve our programs, and working with customers and partners to build market demand that can help these practices endure and grow.”
ADM’s fourth annual report therefore places emphasis not only on the scale of its current programs but also on the partnerships, farmer engagement and measurement systems needed to support continued development.
With more than 56,000 farmers participating across approximately 4.6 million acres in 2025, ADM’s regenerative agriculture initiatives represent a significant component of its broader agricultural sustainability efforts. Through collaboration with farmers and downstream customers, the company continues working to connect regenerative farming practices with market opportunities while pursuing improvements in soil health, agricultural resilience and environmental performance.
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