We know consumers are increasingly interested not only in where their food comes from but how it is grown and by whom. We share consumers’ desire for transparency about what goes into our products.

‘Treat the World with Care’ is a core belief at General Mills.

For our Sourcing team, this means we work to create supply chain resiliency and enable growth by protecting and conserving the raw material base our businesses depend on. For these reasons, we made a commitment in 2014 to sustainably source our top ten priority ingredients by 2020.

Today, we sustainably source 91% of the raw fluid milk we purchase in the U.S. and are on track to meet our goal of 100% by the end of 2020 (the calendar year).

The annual award honors farms, businesses and partnerships whose practices improve the well-being of people, animals and the planet. General Mills and Foremost Farms were commended for bringing together a network of 16 dairy farmers to assess and implement sustainability improvements using the FARM model.

The farmers achieved a combined GHG reduction of 11% over a three-year period, outperforming national and regional benchmark averages.