Biome Makers Launches BeCrop Rate to Measure, Monitor, Report and Verify Regenerative Agriculture
Biome Makers, a global agtech company, is announcing the launch of BeCrop® Rate, an innovative sustainability metric for agriculture. BeCrop Rate empowers farmers and food producers to measure, monitor, report, and validate sustainability and regenerative efforts to meet rising consumer and global demand.
“With BeCrop Rate, we’re fulfilling the critical need for science-backed sustainability tools in agriculture,” said Biome Makers CEO, Adrián Ferrero. “By leveraging the power of soil biology data, BeCrop Rate enables the measurement and verification of sustainability for farmlands across the world.”
BeCrop® Rate uses the advanced BeCrop® technology’s ecological computing using artificial intelligence and the largest global taxonomic database of 14M microorganisms, to decode the soil microbial networks and assess human impact on soil biology. After analyzing key indicators in soil, BeCrop Rate generates a sustainability scorecard for each land parcel.
The one-time annual assessment provides an objective metric that enables farmers to quantify sustainability efforts on their farm, identify areas for improvement, validate sustainable practices to corporate buyers, and differentiate products through verified sustainability.
For food producers and CPG companies, BeCrop Rate offers supply chain mapping and tracking to pinpoint sustainability opportunities. Consumer brands can also leverage BeCrop Rate scores and a QR code mapping to the location the products were sourced to showcase their commitment to sustainable sourcing.
“Consumers overwhelmingly demand sustainably produced food, but struggle to identify them,” said Ferrero. “BeCrop Rate provides the verification consumers, and companies, need to make sustainability a priority at every link of the supply chain.”
The BeCrop Rate index offers a pathway to improve ROI for farmers while enhancing sustainability, even with challenges like drought. It is the missing piece for measuring soil health changes over time amidst climate events.
The launch of BeCrop Rate coincides with Biome Makers’ rapid growth driven by rising demand for soil intelligence. Awarded as one of Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies for 2022, the company has analyzed millions of acres across 50 countries and currently holds the largest taxonomic database of microbe references in the world. BeCrop has tested soil in 188 crops including the top 30 most globally traded crops.
With the combination of microbiome data science and sustainability measurement, Biome Makers is pioneering the agriculture technologies of both today and tomorrow. BeCrop Rate represents the next evolution in that journey, providing a sustainability roadmap for every player across the agricultural ecosystem.
About Biome Makers
Founded in California’s Silicon Valley in 2015, Biome Makers is one of the foremost global AgTech leaders, setting the standard in soil health with BeCrop technology. Built on industry-leading AgTech expertise and driven by data and science, Biome Makers connect soil biology to agricultural decision-making to optimize farming practices and reverse the degradation of arable soils. With labs across the globe, customers on 4 continents, and 1M+ acres of land impacted, Biome Makers revitalizes soil functionality and agricultural sustainability worldwide.
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