SIEMER & STAR Reward Program

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1. Siemer customers' corn, soybean and wheat fields are eligible to participate (must have been a Siemer Milling Company customer (delivered wheat) within the last 5 years or in 2026). There is a 400 acres/grower/year cap.

 2. Prioritization (if needed) will be first come, first served, using the date the signed Grower Agreement is received. 

3. STAR encourages stack ability of payment programs to fully cover producers' cost of practice implementation. Other private carbon market programs may have restrictions that prohibit additional producer payments for fields that are enrolled. Producers should check the rules of any other program they are participating in before committing to this program. Fields enrolled in publicly eligible programs, like USDA- or state-based conservation programs, are eligible. 

4. A small subset of STAR fields is randomly selected each year for verification and quality control. Verification will occur in late 2025. If a field that is participating in this program is randomly selected, the grower will be notified by a STAR representative. 

5. No backsliding: In subsequent years of STAR’s Producer Reward Payment Program, fields will not be eligible for a payment if they were previously rewarded for a certain STAR Rating Improvement. For example, in the image below, Field A received a payment for achieving an improvement from 2 to 3 STARs; this same field would NOT be eligible to receive a payment if the field went back down to a 2-STAR rating and went back up to a 3-STAR rating. It would only be eligible for another incentive payment when it achieved a 4-STAR rating, or the flat payment for a 5-STAR rating.