The Washington Post published today (January 22) an article highlighting the criticality of sustainability for beef and dairy in the US.
(Apologies that the article may be pay walled. Browse with JavaScript off and you can read the copy.)
Sustainable production, and the ability to prove it, is now table stakes for beef production. Meeting this challenge will be difficult for many cow/calf ranchers, who do not have the tools to collect, and submit, to multiple stakeholders, the detailed, audit able, and provable records of production practice necessary to secure carbon offsets, sustainability incentives, and provide Scope 3 emissions reporting.
The Government of Canada has launched a major initiative addressing enteric beef methane emissions. Flokk is providing a response to the draft protocol, and applying to the related funding opportunity, to ensure we are leaders in delivering the tools necessary for cow/calf and backgrounder operations to secure carbon offsets and other sustainability incentives.
And this is in addition to mandatory food safety traceability reporting coming into effect in 2025. The pen and paper methods used by 75% of cow/calf ranchers are no longer sustainable.
As the sole herd management and traceability solution member of Canadian Roundtable for Sustainable Beef, and the only provider of integrated herd management and traceability solutions purpose built for cow/calf ranching, Flokk is uniquely positioned to rapidly become the industry standard platform.
Proven at scale in Canada, Flokk will then be ideally positioned for US and export markets.
Flokk is currently seeking investors for a $1.2M pre-seed round that will establish the enabling platform for current, and future, livestock efficiency, traceability, and sustainability solutions.