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SUPPLIER FEEDBACK Over the past several years Roy Farms has moved toward a lower carbon footprint within its farming practices. We at BioTwine have been able to offer a local biodegradable alternative to traditional hop twine that has helped support Roy Farms overall sustainability effort. Roy Farms moved to 100 percent biodegradable paper twine in the past year as an alternative to traditional coir twine that is produced overseas and must be packaged and shipped via container freight lines. The BioTwine product however is produced 10 miles from the farm operation eliminating large transportation impacts and is produced with a renewable paper source with nearly no carbon impact. To add to the overall benefit Roy Farms has requested the paper twine be produced with trim paper or material left after manufacturing of our other products meaning we are able to utilize all paper in our manufacturing. The increased use of this trim product has led to conversations with additional papers mills to adopt the same total usage process and one additional mill has so far begun production with trim. Each mill adopting this total usage practice is a significant reduction in the overall manufacturing footprint in the US. Roy Farms and others are leading the way in sustainability and carbon footprint reduction in agriculture. Tom Sauve Managing Partner BioTwine Manufacturing 69 PERCENT OF ROY FARMS SPENDING WAS WITHIN 100 MILES OF THE FARM PAGE 38