The Sustainable Corn Exports and Sustainable Sorghum Exports portals and related sustainability information have been combined under the new Sustainable Grain Exports platform. Photo credit: U.S. Grains & BioProducts Council.
Earlier this month, the U.S. Grains & BioProducts Council (USGBC) upgraded the Sustainable Corn Exports (SCE) platform’s digital architecture and enabled sorghum operations, launching the Sustainable Sorghum Exports (SSE) platform and a new Sustainable Grain Exports umbrella site. This new framework will allow the Council to offer more robust assurances for future transactions of both corn and sorghum across international supply chains.
“The Council’s goal in creating these platforms is to continue evolving with supply chain requirements across multiple geographies and industries, that grains exporters and global customers can meet thanks to these assurances derived from the regulations and production practices prevalent across U.S. acreage,” said Carlos Suárez, USGBC director of global sustainability.
“Being able to offer Records of Sustainability for U.S. corn and sorghum export operations through the enhanced platform will give more visibility to the work U.S. farmers already undertake to responsibly steward the land and reduce impacts from production, that can give U.S. feed grains a significant boost in competitiveness in mature markets and bring more business to U.S. producers.”
The new SGE umbrella platform is now live for sorghum transactions and users can immediately begin requesting volume allocations and issuing and transferring Records of Sustainability.
Corn transactions will be in a beta phase through April 30, meaning users can start familiarizing themselves with the new portal through test transactions but official business will still be done on the existing SCE platform until the end of the month.
Additional features included in the SGE platform include the ability to easily integrate pre-defined special product attributes, enhanced features for importers to assign personnel to manage multiple portfolios across different regions and the possibility of integrating third-party sustainability programs through a new partnerships function.
Read more from USGBC here.