How Ag Retailers Can Start Talking About Sustainability

Field to Market’s Kelly Murray Young shares how the SPARC initiative is going so far and all of the ways retailers can get the conversation started with their farmer customers about sustainability.

By Margy Eckelkamp

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September 19, 2022 09:32 PM

Field to Market’s Kelly Murray Young shares how the SPARC initiative is going so far and all of the ways retailers can get the conversation started with their farmer customers about sustainability.

Late in 2018, the SPARC (sustainability programming for ag retailers and CCAs) initiative was launched at the ARA annual meeting. Field to Market’s Kelly Murray Young shares how the initiative is going so far and all of the ways retailers can get the conversation started with their farmer customers about sustainability.

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