The farmer-founded Innovation Center for U.S. Dairy, which unites the industry through a shared social responsibility platform, said it launched the awards to honor exceptional farms, businesses and partnerships for their socially responsible, economically viable and environmentally sound practices and technologies that have a broad and positive impact.

The checkoff-founded Innovation Center for U.S. Dairy, Rosemont, Ill., announced a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

The Innovation Center for U.S. Dairy announces its fifth annual U.S. Dairy Sustainability Award winners during a ceremony in Chicago.

Barbara O’Brien, president of the checkoff-funded Innovation Center for U.S. Dairy, said fluid milk “is now at a crossroads” following four decades of declining sales.

“There are solutions,” O’Brien said. “But we need the will and commitment (of the industry) to carry them out.”
 

I accompanied a delegation from the Innovation Center for U.S. Dairy to the White House this week. POTUS was not in the house. Though we did not meet the President Of The United States, the trip was still memorable.