STAR Information

STAR is a national, non-profit organization established to develop and expand the STAR framework for conservation practice evaluation, implementation, and valuation, to create a standardized approach for STAR initiatives across the US, and to provide guidance and support for new and existing STAR Affiliates. The goal of STAR is to facilitate successful and sustained conservation practice adoption and implementation by farmers and ranchers by providing STAR Affiliates a comprehensive toolkit and tailored guidance to empower producer success and to connect them to market programs. The STAR framework includes a simple, straightforward, and free tool developed by farmers and ranchers to increase voluntary conservation practice implementation on agricultural lands. The STAR 1 to 5 rating system is used to evaluate conservation practices on individual fields using a locally-driven, science-based approach to effectively and efficiently scale grassroots conservation efforts by incentivizing and rewarding the adoption of practices that have relevance to producers and their supply chain partners. STAR bridges the gap between producers’ perceptions of sustainability and outcomes-based supply chain sustainability programs.