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SMORGASBORD GOURMET NEWS SEPTEMBER 2019 www.gourmetnews.com SMORGASBORD 1 4 Busha Browne 13 www.bushabrowne.com 876.906.0347 Caputo Cheese 11 www.caputocheese.com Dietz & Watson 9 www.dietzandwatson.com 800.333.7974 EU3 16 GLASS — North America 3 www.ardaghgroup.com 856.455.2137 Gourmet International 13 www.gourmetint.com 800.875.5557 Howard Products Inc. 12 www.howardproducts.com 800.266.954 SaltWorks Inc. 7 www.seasalt.com 800.353.7258 Stonewall Kitchen 2 www.stonewallkitchen.com 888.326.5678 Wild Forest Products 15 www.trufflesoilsandmore.com 855.645.7772 CALENDAR September 12-14 Natural Products Expo East Baltimore, Maryland www.expoeast.com October 2-5 Las Vegas Souvenir & Resort Gift Show Las Vegas, Nevada www.clarionux.com October 17-19 Produce Marketing Association's Fresh Summit Anaheim, California www.pma.com/events/freshsummit November 6-9 Smoky Mountain Gift Show Gatlinburg, Tennessee www.clarionux.com ADVERTISER PAGE WEBSITE PHONE ADVERTISER INDEX Wolfe's Neck Center for Agriculture & the Environment, together with founding col- laborators Stonyfield Organic, the U.S. De- partment of Agriculture's LandPKS project and Foundation for the Food and Agricul- ture (FFAR), have launched OpenTEAM, the first open source technology ecosys- tem in the world to address soil health and mitigate climate change. OpenTEAM is projected to provide quantitative feedback on millions of acres of farmland by 2024. OpenTEAM, or Open Technology Ecosystem for Agricultural Man- agement, is a farmer-driven, in- teroperable platform to provide farmers around the world with the best possible knowledge to improve soil health. Currently, farmers are faced with an ever-expanding assortment of decision- making software; however, these tools often do not "communicate" with each other, making it difficult to transfer, share or use by farmers and scientists or in sup- ply chains. With OpenTEAM, farmers are not only in control of their own data, but also able to enter data once to access all available tools in the OpenTEAM collabo- rative. OpenTEAM offers field-level carbon measurement, digital management records, remote sensing, predictive analytics and input and economic management decision support in a connected platform that re- duces the need for farmer data entry while improving access to a wide array of tools. The platform will support adaptive soil health management for farms of all scales, geographies and production systems. OpenTEAM will also accelerate scientific understanding of soil health by providing more high-quality data to researchers col- laborating on the project. To date, more than one dozen organiza- tions have joined to develop, fund, and implement OpenTEAM. These include The Soil Health Partnership; General Mills; Colorado State University/USDA- NRCS Comet Farm; Applied GeoSolu- tions, LLC; DNDC Applications, Research and Training; Dagan, Inc.; Michigan State University Global Change Learning Lab; Purdue University Open Technology and Systems Center (OATS); University of British Columbia Center for Sustainable Food Systems; Regen Network; Our.Sci; Quick Carbon at Yale F&ES; U.S. Cover Crop Council decision tools; Sustainabil- ity Innovation Lab at Colorado (SILC); The University of Colorado Boulder; and FarmOS. Wolfe's Neck Center will coordinate OpenTEAM from its headquarters on more than 600 acres of conserved landscape and farmland on the coast of Maine. Implemen- tation and demonstration will begin in fall 2019. Field testing will continue in the 2020 growing season across the U.S. and interna- tional hub farm networks. "At Wolfe's Neck Center, we are col- laborating to create solu- tions that ad- dress climate change through regenerative agri- culture," said Dave Herring, Executive Di- rector, Wolfe's Neck Center for Agriculture & the Environ- ment. "OpenTEAM pairs agriculture with open source technology to accelerate soil health right here in Maine and around the globe." The more than $10 million public-pri- vate collaboration is made possible by a $5 million grant from FFAR, with more than $5 million matching contributions coming from across the network, including a $200,000 grant from The Stonyfield Foun- dation and $200,000 in in-kind contribu- tions and a grant from Stonyfield Organic. "Optimizing soil management practices not only improves soil health, but also pro- tects the environment," said FFAR's Exec- utive Director Sally Rockey. "At scale, OpenTEAM can improve soil management practices for farmers around the globe and mitigate the effects of climate change." "Stonyfield is strongly committed to re- ducing our greenhouse gas emissions," said Britt Lundgren, Director of Organic and Sustainable Agriculture at Stonyfield Or- ganic Yogurt. "Over half of our emissions come from agriculture, so in order to hit our target we know we need to work with the farms who provide our ingredients and help them reduce their emissions and se- quester more carbon. OpenTEAM will en- able us to do this, and track farms' progress so we can be confident we're hitting our goals." "We are inspired by the level of collab- oration, leadership and vision our Open- TEAM partners have provided," said Dorn Cox, PhD, Research Director, Wolfe's Neck Center. "Through the power of open technology, we aim to make what was invisible visible and in so doing the unvalued valuable." GN Global Collaborative Launches Effort to Address Soil Health and Mitigate Climate Change GOURMET MARKETPLACE An authentic Jamaican blend of herbs and spices creates the legendary hot marinade. 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