Sustainability in practice
We have asked milk producers around the world how they look at sustainability in dairy farming. What are their driving forces? What solutions or practices can they recommend? As you will see some has found new ways of adding value to their business, and new technology is continuously being developed and used on dairy farms. Read the interviews>>
Sustainability articles and reports
What do “Green”, “Carbon Footprint”, and “Greenhouse Gas” mean to your Dairy operation? - Jim Paulson, Extension Educator-Dairy at the University of Minnesota
Cows with Gas: India's Global-Warming Problem - Madhur Singh, TIME World
Carbon Grazing Reduces methane Book by Alan Lauder (chapter can be downloaded at the bottom of the page)
Centre to test farm energy of future - Article from the Belfast Telegraph
US Sustainability Facts from the Dairy Industry Sustainability Initiative
EU Cohesion Policy backs "green economy" for growth and long-term jobs in Europe - Press release from the European Union
How will farming in the EU be affected by climate change? Information on Climate Change and Agriculture from the European Commission
Consumer perception part of dairy’s cow methane battle (part 1) - Neil Merrett at DairyReporter.com
Greener dairy cow drive going global to aid national breakthroughs (part 2) - Neil Merrett at DairyReporter.com
Sustainability web sites
The Dairy Industry Sustainability Initiative (US):
http://www.dairycheckoff.com/DairyCheckoff/innovationcenter
European Dairy Energy Website, aiming to bring small and medium sized enterprises from the European dairy industry into the energy equation and empower them to become more efficient in its use, as well as more capacitated to uptake renewable sources.
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