The co-op applied for the grant earlier this year through the USDA’s new Partnerships for Climate-Smart Commodities program.
Edge Dairy Farmer Cooperative, one of the largest dairy co-ops in the country, celebrated an announcement that it will receive up to $50 million from the U.S. Department of Agriculture for a broad climate-smart initiative.
Edge will spearhead a multi-partner project ― Farmer-led Climate Smart Commodities Initiative: Building Success from the Ground Up ― aimed at expanding climate-smart markets and establishing dairy and sugar as climate-smart commodities. The co-op applied for the grant earlier this year through the USDA’s new Partnerships for Climate-Smart Commodities program. The grant was one of 70 announced on Sept. 14.