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    Home » Keywords: » sustainability in the dairy industry

    Items Tagged with 'sustainability in the dairy industry'

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    Clover Sonoma

    Clover Sonoma joins Dairy Methane Action Alliance

    May 9, 2024

    By joining this initiative, it commits by the end of 2024 to annually and publicly disclose methane emissions within their dairy supply chains, and they are each pledging to create and publish a methane action plan, also by the end of the year. 


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    Dairy Farmers of America awarded $22.8M grant

    The grant was one of 81 announced on Nov. 1, through the USDA RCPP, which awarded more than $1 billion in funding to advance and expand the reach of conservation efforts and climate-smart agriculture through partner-driven solutions to conservation on agricultural land.
    November 3, 2023

    Dairy cooperative will implement a pilot project to reduce methane emissions on dairy farms through the use of an innovative feed additive.


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    Edge Cooperative makes major additions to its sustainability team

    The moves mark the start of the cooperative’s $50 million grant project through the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Partnerships for Climate-Smart Commodities program.
    July 26, 2023

    Carrie Carroll has joined the cooperative as director of climate-smart, and Jamie Fisher has been promoted to senior project manager for the cooperative’s climate-smart project. 


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    Sustainable Innovations in cheese packaging

    Innovations in bioplastics using dairy waste can make packaging that is biodegradable.
    John Lucey Ph.D.
    John A. Lucey Ph.D., Director, Center for Dairy Research
    April 21, 2023

    Packaging is essential to maintaining and protecting the quality of the cheese product as well as attracting the eye of consumers. The Center for Dairy Research is investigating methods to produce bioplastics from dairy waste and looking into producing pure lactic acid, a renewable and biodegradable bioplastic, from the biofermentation of cheese whey.


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    Grundfos Helps You Reach Your Sustainability Goals in the Dairy Industry
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    Grundfos Americas Corporation

    July 29, 2022

    Let Grundfos be your partner and help your operation achieve its maximum potential by saving water and energy, reducing production costs, optimizing process efficiency and increasing quality standards.


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    Clover Sonoma sustainable milk carton

    Clover Sonoma honored for packaging innovation with California Creamery Operators Association’s Sustainability award

    The dairy company debuted the first fully renewable milk carton and post-consumer recycled gallon milk jug in the United States.
    April 27, 2022

    Clover Sonoma — a Certified B Corporation and third-generation family-owned and operated dairy based in Petaluma, Calif. — said it received recognition for sustainable packaging innovation through California Creamery Operators Association’s first Sustainability award.


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    New technologies boost dairy sustainability from farm to table

    The first carbon-neutral milk was introduced in 2021.
    Sharon Gerdes Health and Wellness editor of Dairy Foods
    Sharon Gerdes
    December 13, 2021

    At the recent 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Glasgow, Scotland, the United States announced that it would join the international Global Methane Pledge, which aims to limit methane emissions by 30%, compared to 2020 levels, by 2030. That’s an ambitious goal, but one that the U.S. dairy industry is already tackling.


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    Global Dairy Platform

    Dairy companies among first to support new global ‘Pathways to Dairy Net Zero’ climate initiative

    The new initiative, which aims to accelerate climate change action and reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions across the dairy sector, is already backed by organizations representing approximately 30% of global milk production.
    September 22, 2021

    Pathways to Dairy Net Zero, a ground-breaking new climate initiative, is Sept. 22 during Climate Week and just prior to the United Nations (UN) Food Systems Summit. Forty leading organizations, including 11 of the 20 largest dairy companies in the world, already declared their support for the effort, according to the Global Dairy Platform, Rosemont, Ill. 


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    National Dairy Council tells dairy’s nutrition, sustainability story ahead of United Nations Summit

    The organization conducted various dairy-focused educational outreach efforts with key thought leaders who have a shared interest in the outcomes the summit can potentially have on a more nutritious and sustainable future for the world.
    September 21, 2021

    The ability to nourish people amid unprecedented population growth of close to 10 billion by 2050 with escalating climate concerns takes center stage at the United Nations Food Systems Summit (UNFSS) on Sept. 23. 


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    US dairy shares environmental sustainability strides

    National Dairy Council and other industry organizations are participating in global dialogues about reducing dairy’s footprint.
    Gregory Miller
    August 23, 2021

    The United Nations Food Systems Summit (UNFSS) takes place in September with a goal to “launch bold new actions to transform the way the world produces and consumes food, as part of the Decade of Action to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030.”


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