Our Approach to Net Zero

We invested $700,000 in the new University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s Feedlot Research, Teaching and Extension center. The new center will allow for groundbreaking research of emerging technologies, environmental impacts, low-stress animal handling and more, while providing unique opportunities for teaching, outreach and public-private partnerships. 

$230K for Colorado State University AgNext program to help cattle producers from across the country implement sustainable grazing practices. From methane-measuring technologies to GPS collars on cattle, read some of the ideas in this Wall Street Journal article.

$150K for the Soil and Water Outcomes Fund to drive carbon sequestration, improve water quality, and create new economic opportunities for growers to profit from conservation practices, such as no-till and cover crops. The partnership will include a 10,000-acre pilot in Indiana, an important supply shed for our pork production.

$100K for the Foundation for Food and Ag Research, Greener Cattle Initiative. We are part of 10 companies funding almost $5 million over the next five years to support research and development of practices and technologies to reduce enteric methane emissions from cattle. 

$33K for the University of Minnesota to utilize the Food System Supply-chain Sustainability (FoodS³) transportation model to map the animal supply sheds and their associated feed sheds within the U.S., as well as the greenhouse gas impacts associated with these supply chains. 

Food waste has far-reaching impacts on food security, resource conservation and climate change. In 2015, USDA and EPA announced the first-ever U.S. food loss and waste reduction goal. JBS and Pilgrim’s joined the movement and committed to reduce food loss and waste in our U.S. operations by 50 percent by the year 2030.