Syngenta and McDonads Collaboration

At the Sustainable Agriculture Summit three years ago, Syngenta began a collaboration with McDonald's and Lopez Food to support McDonald's carbon reduction goals for 2030 and 2050 Syngenta integrated its expertise with cattle and dairy producers to develop a program focused on sustainability initiatives. Chris Cook Syngenta, Head of Business Solutions in North America.

“Our program or opportunity that we call feed-forward, and in this case, our first partners, McDonald's, like I said, they were part of helping us actually develop this between McDonald's and Lopez foods. And what it's doing is incentivizing growers to use Enogen, and it pays on a per head per day incentive, and that may vary depending on who the partner is. So we just, you know, right now, we just call it a per head per day incentive, but it's focused on different categories of animals. So it could be a background or a feeder, or even a cold dairy cow, but it starts with using Enogen, and the Enogen needs to be used at greater than, or equal to 50% of the starch in the ration on a dry matter basis. So it's not of the ration, it's of the actual starch component in the ration. So just displace what corn you're using, replace it with Enogen.”

University Research has shown that feeding Enogen as the silage or grain, can improve feed efficiency by about 5% McDonald's plans to scale this program to help deliver over 164,000 metric tons of CO2e per year.