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News: Dairy Industry Launches Sustainability Reporting Guide

Fri, 17 May 2013 19:19:59 GMT

The Innovation Center for US Dairy has published a guide to help dairy companies and farms measure and report on sustainability.

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Resource: Innovation Center for U.S. Dairy Tools and Resources

Fri, 17 May 2013 19:18:48 GMT

These Smart Tools can help dairy producers and businesses evaluate their operations and find opportunities for improvement. These improvements contribute to environmental performance and the bottom line. Included are tools for improving farm, plant, and fleet operations. ?

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Resource: Producer Handbook to the Stewardship and Sustainability Guide for U.S. Dairy

Fri, 17 May 2013 19:15:53 GMT

The Producer Handbook to the Stewardship and Sustainability Guide for U.S. Dairy (Guide) was developed exclusively to support dairy producers and milk marketing organizations, who seek to understand and use the Guide to track and communicate their stewardship.

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Resource: Processor Handbook to the Stewardship and Sustainability Guide for U.S. Dairy

Fri, 17 May 2013 19:14:58 GMT

The Processor Handbook to the Stewardship and Sustainability Guide for U.S. Dairy (Guide) was developed exclusively to support dairy processors and manufacturers seeking to understand and use the Guide to track and communicate their stewardship and sustainability. The Handbook only contains indicators, tools and information relevant to companies that transport, process, manufacture and package dairy products into food, beverages and other ingredients. A similar Guide is available for dairy producers and their marketing organizations.

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Resource: Stewardship and Sustainability Guide for U.S. Dairy

Fri, 17 May 2013 19:14:11 GMT

The Guide and supporting handbooks help dairy producers and processors in their efforts to voluntarily: Communicate about sustainability; Demonstrate progress where it matters most; Create long-term economic growth; Build consumer trust. This in turn supports a growing number of buyers of milk and dairy products that are interested in this information to understand the sustainability performance of their supply chains. The indicators in the Guide are based on the Innovation Center's lifecycle assessment studies and practical input from the industry members and other experts including NGOs, government organizations, customers and academics. They can be used by dairy farmers and dairy processors in conjunction with Innovation Center tools like F?arm Smart?TM, Plant Smart?TM and Fleet Smart?TM, to track their progress over time and to identify areas for efficiencies and opportunities.

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Resource: Water Quality Index for Agricultural Runoff

Wed, 08 May 2013 19:31:16 GMT

Gives producers a complete picture of their water quality instead of focusing on just one aspect such as temperature, nutrients or pesticide content.

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Resource: Reducing Risk: Landscape Approaches to Sustainable Sourcing

Tue, 07 May 2013 14:20:03 GMT

Businesses facing climate change, water shortages, or community relations issues can improve their bottom line while also protecting biodiversity and improving rural livelihoods by using a "whole landscape" approach to land management. This is the major finding of a new report from The Landscapes for People, Food and Nature Initiative, a collaboration of nine of the world's leading anti-hunger, conservation and development organizations. This report highlights how some visionary companies that rely upon coffee, cocoa, water, and other resources in the developing world are going beyond piecemeal sustainability projects to take a more holistic approach.

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Resource: Farm Smart

Tue, 23 Apr 2013 20:52:51 GMT

Farm Smart 1.5 provides dairy producers with their farm's environmental footprint. It also allows them to compare energy use, greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and water use against regional and national averages compiled by the U.S. dairy industry's Comprehensive Life Cycle Assessment for Fluid Milk.

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Resource: Annual Phosphorus Loss Estimator (APLE)

Mon, 22 Apr 2013 18:05:10 GMT

APLE is a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet model that runs on an annual time step and simulates sediment bound and dissolved P loss in surface runoff. It is intended to simulate edge-of-field P loss for uniform fields of several hectares in size, or smaller. APLE considers different kinds of animal manure (beef, dairy, poultry, swine), applied either by machine or by grazing beef or dairy cattle, and highly soluble commercial fertilizers.

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News: Coal, Cattle Ranching 'Most Environmentally Costly' Businesses

Wed, 17 Apr 2013 17:24:55 GMT

Coal-powered energy and cattle ranching are the two most environmentally expensive industries -- and cost the economy more in environmental damage than they generate in revenue, according to a UN-backed report.

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