ADM Continues to Drive Farmer Resilience With Expansion of re:generations™ Program to Germany

ROLLE - ADM (NYSE: ADM), a global leader in innovative solutions from nature, announced today that it has partnered with AgriTech company Klim to expand its re:generations™ program across Germany.

Re:generations™ supports agriculture and helps build and maintain a more resilient food system by providing financial assistance and agronomic support to farmers who are taking steps to implement regenerative agriculture practices. These practices include precise fertilizer application, conservation tillage, cover crops, increasing biodiversity habitats, and companion cropping that protect and improve soil health, biodiversity, climate and water resources while supporting farming business development.

Farmers enrolled in re:generations™ in Germany receive incentives per hectare for introducing regenerative agriculture practices. With a goal of enrolling 60,000 acres (approximately 24,281 hectares) in Germany by 2025, the program in Germany is currently available for farmers growing wheat, oil seed rape, and soy. It follows the successful launch of re:generations™ in the United Kingdom and Poland as part of ADM's goal to support regenerative agriculture practices across 5 million acres globally this year.

"We're excited to support farmers in strengthening their businesses and their futures across Europe, including with the expansion of our re:generations™ program into Germany," said Candy Siekmann, director of Climate Smart Agriculture Origination at ADM. "The program follows a comprehensive design which gathers data from across entire farms and provides farmers with tools to better position their farm for the future and help reduce and sequester emissions. Very few companies touch every part of the value chain, from farmer to consumer, the way ADM does, representing a unique opportunity to connect every step of that value chain."

Farmer Lorenz Rindler from Sundhagen in Germany, who recently enrolled his family farm in the re:generations™ program, said, "we are convinced that regenerative farming practices will have a positive impact on our farm and our future. We particularly value the connection between us, ADM and downstream customers, which makes the program a credible and economically meaningful initiative."

ADM has partnered with AgriTech company Klim, a leading European provider of scope 3 solutions for agriculture, to onboard German farmers and further develop the program by providing monitoring, reporting and verification services. Together, Klim and ADM have defined over 30 key performance indicators that farmers can use to measure impact using comprehensive data and insights from across the entire farm. The analysis helps farmers review essential performance metrics to make informed decisions on which regenerative methods are the best suited to their operations. ADM and its customers can use the analysis to account for the results as part of their Scope 3 inventory.

"We're excited to partner with ADM to help support these practices. By combining ADM's resources and farming network with Klim's data and analytics driven approach and regenerative expertise, we are spearheading an industry-wide shift towards a more resilient, sustainable food system," said Robert Gerlach, CEO & founder of Klim. "This partnership is a powerful model for how collaboration across the entire value chain can deliver both environmental impact and economic resilience at scale."

Enrolled farmers can benefit from expert training by Klim agronomists and a hybrid approach that incentivizes both new and existing regenerative agriculture practices to help reduce greenhouse gas emissions, promote soil health, and highlight the positive impact of sequestered carbon. This approach will appeal to a diverse range of farmers including those already implementing regenerative agriculture and those new to the practice.

Robust data collection, continuous feedback from the farmer, and considerations specific to the region are critical factors in the program success as well as understanding and verifying the regenerative agriculture practices adopted and analyzing data to understand the impact on carbon dioxide emissions and soil health.

Farmer Lorenz Rindler continues, "our goal is to achieve transparency of carbon dioxide emissions from across the entire farm and work toward long-term reductions and removals. What excites us most is that the program and collaboration across the supply chain is a shared effort where all participants pursue a common goal and work together in achieving it."

Partners interested in learning more about the re:generations™ program in Germany should email [email protected].

ADM and Regenerative Agriculture
ADM has a broad and ambitious approach to regenerative agriculture, working with partners spanning the value chain. ADM knows that farmers are stewards of the land, and the company offers an array of programs that suit a broad range of farmers. As ADM has expanded its work in regenerative agriculture around the globe, it has worked with multiple downstream customers, including Ooni Pizza Ovens, The J.M. Smucker Co., PepsiCo, Mars, and Carlsberg.

ADM's innovative, value chain-spanning approach to regenerative agriculture successfully delivered more than 2.8 million acres in 2023, and has earned honors including positions as finalists in the 2023 Reuters Responsible Business Awards and the 2024 Fast Company World Changing Ideas Awards. Read full details of ADM's programs, achievements and goals in its 2024 Regenerative Agriculture Report here.

About ADM
ADM unlocks the power of nature to enrich the quality of life. We're an essential global agricultural supply chain manager and processor, providing food security by connecting local needs with global capabilities. We're a premier human and animal nutrition provider, offering one of the industry's broadest portfolios of ingredients and solutions from nature. We're a trailblazer in health and well-being, with an industry-leading range of products for consumers looking for new ways to live healthier lives. We're a cutting-edge innovator, guiding the way to a future of new consumer and industrial solutions. And we're a leader in sustainability, scaling across entire value chains to help decarbonize the multiple industries we serve. Around the globe, our innovation and expertise are meeting critical needs while nourishing quality of life and supporting a healthier planet. Learn more at www.adm.com.

About Klim
The AgriTech company Klim is offering solutions for farmers and food companies to transition global food supply chains towards regenerative practices as quickly as possible, this way improving global food security, contributing to climate protection, and improving biodiversity outcomes. Klim's digital platform offers farmers tools to plan and execute the transition and access transition finance. Food companies can improve their supply chain resilience and reduce their Scope 3 emissions. Klim was founded in 2020 in Berlin by Dr. Robert Gerlach, Nina Mannheimer and Adiv Maimon. www.klim.eco

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