Benefits
Growing Identity Preserved (IP) crop is a rare and exciting opportunity for growers to access new technology and produce a product to be used in the production of healthier foods for our tables! In choosing to grow an IP product, you will be harvesting the source for one of the best quality products available on the market. These specialty products, with specific characteristics, are going to help meet a growing demand by consumers all over the world for healthier products.
Although growing and delivering IP crops is more complex, there are financial rewards and personal satisfaction that go along with this type of value-add crop production. It is growers with proven track records of delivering quality grain who are selected to enter into specialty grain production. Because the IP grower has to deliver grain of a specified quality, the grower must have the managerial ability to grow and deliver grain in a manner that both produces and preserves quality.
Is IP Right For You?
If you answer YES to the following questions, you are a candidate for an IP program:
- Do you have the farming experience to grow and delivery grain in a manner that not only creates but preserves required grain quality?
- Are you interested in participating in a value-add program, designed to deliver a product to a specific end user?
- Are you up to the challenge of growing a grain crop with specific production and delivery specifications?
- Do you have the storage capacity required to segregate the IP grain from other on-farm grains?
- Do you have the cash flow flexibility to sell your grain when the end user requires delivery?
For more information on growing IP crops please see your Richardson Pioneer representative.