Bring up the word “sustainability” in a meeting and you can almost hear the eyes roll, but this issue isn’t going away. Is there a way farmers can demonstrate their sustainability, build on it and perhaps grow profit? It’s possible.

Liz Hunt, head, Sustainable and Responsible Business, Syngenta, explored the concept in the latest episode of Around Farm Progress. While that word, sustainability, has many definitions, Hunt helps narrow the scope and discusses practices farmers may already be doing that can help. In addition she discusses the idea that for a farm to be sustainable it must also be profitable.

And she shares some information about a way a farmer who might be “sustainability curious” can explore the issue, how tactics already in use on a farm can be measured and offers insight into tactics for the future. And there’s a new app that can help farmers measure the benefits of practices already in use on the farm that show sustainable approaches are in use. Give it a listen.

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