Sustainability is a term that gets used often in food marketing, by politicians and thought leaders but what does it really mean to dairy farmers and the dairy checkoff. Listen as Georgia dairy farmer Adam Graft has a conversation with former National Dairy Board member and California dairy farmer Steve Maddox and Stephanie Masiello Schuette, Director of…
Read MoreBetween cows’ burps and manure and their land, water and feed requirements, the dairy industry is often blamed for adding substantial greenhouse gases to the atmosphere, and contributing to monocropping, soil degradation and water pollution. Checkoff sustainability leader Karen Scanlon joined the Soup-to-Nuts podcast to share how the dairy industry is working to continue reducing its…
Read MoreRecent sustainability award winners Chase and Danielle Goodrich explain how installing a manure digester that pipes gas to a college has provided a secondary revenue stream for their Vermont dairy farm.
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A growing body of research showing the health benefits of full-fat dairy is drawing attention from the nutrition community. Get the story behind this research and more in the newest episode of Dairy on the Air, during which Dr. Greg Miller, Ph.D., the National Dairy Council’s Chief Science Officer, and Allen Merrill, South Dakota dairy…
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