b'INVESTING IN SUSTAINABLE TECHNOLOGIES OUR MANAGEMENT APPROACH water resources indicator in the newly released Our goal is to be the market leader in providingSustainable Farmland Management Standard. sustainable solutions that help our customers addressOur FieldNET suite of solutions is focused on important global challenges like climate change,optimizing the use of data analytics. Growers who water scarcity, food insecurity, and others that comehave access to real time, precision data are better with considerable population growth. To achievepositioned to make smarter decisions about when, this, we strive to find new ways to innovate and bringwhere and how much to irrigate. To do this, we are value to our customers. In our irrigation business,making improvements to our own products, but we prioritize investments in the development ofwe also are building partnerships to broaden our new energy and water saving technologies thatservices to deliver tools such as satellite imagery enable growers to make the most of their limitedthrough Farmers Edge, now added to our offering, resources. In our infrastructure business, we focus ourand Climate Corporation, which offers enhanced data investments on solutions that reduce emissions andconnectivity enabling farmers to make faster, more-provide positive protection to construction workersinformed field and irrigation management decisions.and citizens. In FY18 we set aspirational targets to help growers IRRIGATIONsave more than 700 billion gallons of water andThe World Economic Forum estimated that by 2050,more than one billion kilowatt hours of energythe global demand for food will be 60 percent higherby 2022 through use of our products. We track our than it is today 1 . In addition, traditional farmingprogress against these targets in real time, andpractices are under pressure to become moreshare this information with stakeholders on our sustainable. Growers recognize that with climateGlobal Impact website. change, weather impact on growing conditions can be unpredictable, and in some cases severe. In regions of water scarcity, farmers face growing restrictions on how much water they can withdraw. We believe Lindsay is well positioned to respond to these emerging sustainability drivers as we develop new products in parallel with the evolving needs of the agricultural industry. We continually monitor ways to improve environmental benefits and ensure that our tools and technology equip producers to meet the growing expectations of investors and auditing groups, for example, to provide substantiated evidence that growers meet the protection of 1 https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2016/01/food-security-and-why-it-matters 9'