OSIP and BFF Certification
Fan-Jet ® Microsprinklers
OSIP Tier Requirements
Incentive
Double Diamond
$750 payment AND $0.005 per delivered pound on the 2023 crop $1,000 payment AND $0.01 per delivered pound on the 2023 crop
1. Complete the
California Almond Stewardship Platform (CASP)
Add a line of Fan-Jets ® Precision Rain - Rain when you want it, where you want it. Frost Protection - Fan-Jets can help provide frost protection by raising the ambient temperature by 2-3 degrees. Fan-Jets will allow you to push salts away from the root zone. Fan-Jets will help your pre-emergents penetrate the soil.
Triple Diamond
1. Complete CASP 2. Achieve Bee Friendly Farming (BFF) Certification through Pollinator Partnership 3. Perform a carbon footprint assessment
This coming fall, we will be relaunching OSIP for the 2023 crop year. The program offers two incentive tiers: Double Diamond and Triple Diamond. Triple Diamond is the higher tier, and thus has the higher incentive payment. We understand that completing the additional steps for Triple Diamond requires a greater commitment of time, money, and effort. This is most significant for obtaining Bee Friendly Farming (BFF) Certification which can be a challenge for growers. Obtaining this certification requires a material investment. That’s why we crafted the CSG program to intentionally assist our growers with this investment — specifically, by providing growers with the plant material and financial support needed to achieve the requirements of Triple Diamond status. How the CSG Facilitates the Transition to Triple Diamond Over the next five years, the CSG will incentivize those farming on Blue Diamond orchards to adopt climate-smart practices, including bee-friendly practices like cover crops and conservation cover. Growers participating in the CSG
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receive free seeds via our grant partners, Project Apis m . Additionally, Blue Diamond growers can receive up to $35 per acre for implementing cover crops and $50 per acre for conservation cover. These payments can reduce the financial burden of attaining BFF Certification, which has a list of requirements detailed in the OSIP Program Guide. Three of the requirements can be achieved using conservation cover and cover crops directly provided by the CSG:
•Providing bee-friendly forage on at least 3% of land, including cover crops.
•Ensuring year-round bloom of diverse flowering plants.
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