Yesterday the Dairy Farmers of America (DFA) announced a test program to explore blockchain for food and agriculture. The DFA is a cooperative owned by dairy farmers across the US. They’re partnering with food traceability startup Ripe.io which took part in a Sprint/DFA Accelerator.
“Consumers today want to know where their food comes from and blockchain technology, like ripe.io, gives consumers real-time data, which can really help increase trust and confidence about food production from start to finish,” says David Darr, VP Sustainability and Member Services at DFA. Or as Ripe.io likes to put it from ‘farm to fork’.
The pilot will use data from a subset of DFA farms plus one of their plants. Ripe prides itself on being able to collect data in many different formats to get as close to the source as possible.
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