In fiscal year 2024, CHS took significant strides with key sustainability initiatives across our enterprise, building the knowledge and approach we need to support our businesses well into the future. Our long-term sustainability strategy is focused on reducing our impact on the climate, minimizing our deforestation risk, serving people and communities and growing our cooperative voice through stakeholder engagement.

As the largest farmer-owned cooperative in America and a global agribusiness, we know it is important to our owners, customers, employees and business partners for CHS to be intentional with how we approach sustainability and build value for our stakeholders. For example, we’ve begun evaluating new markets for low-carbon feedstocks, we are partnering with producers for the distribution of low-carbon fertilizer, we’ve advocated for pragmatic policies at the state and federal level and we continue to provide resources to strengthen rural communities and develop future generations of ag leaders. This year, we’re especially proud of the enterprise wide collaboration to complete our Scope 1 and 2 greenhouse gas emissions inventory. All of those initiatives are highlighted in this report.

Sustainability is part of everything we do on behalf of our owners and to ensure long-term success for CHS and the cooperative system. CHS is committed to reducing our impact on the planet, finding and developing new solutions in agriculture and energy, and investing in ways to build a better future for our owners, customers, employees and communities.

Jay Debertin
President and chief executive officer

Dan Schurr
Chair, Board of Directors