Less burping, more meat and milk: How to tackle the climate crisis
Africa’s livestock farmers are at the forefront of climate change. Images of parched landscapes littered with the carcasses of starved cattle are becoming all too familiar as droughts increase in frequency and severity. But cattle farming globally is also one of the causes of climate change. The world’s three billion or more ruminants – cattle, […]
Australia’s Dairy Problems Persist due to drought, heat and labour issues
Once a powerhouse on the global dairy trade circuit, Australia’s dairy industry has been contracting due to successive long-term droughts, numerous heat events, and an ongoing labor crisis. According to recent article in Bloomberg, Australia’s share of the world export market dropped from 18% in the 1990s to about 6% in 2018 as Australian producers […]
India means business when it comes to climate action: Goyal
India means business when it comes to addressing the climate change but it is the developed world which needs to move further from paying a lip service to the cause and show action on ground, Piyush Goyal, Union Minister of Commerce and Industry, Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution and Textiles said, showcasing India’s approach […]
Is Technology the Answer to Dairy’s Sustainability Triple Threats?
As commentators are fond of pointing out from a sustainability perspective the most productive farms, the most productive cows, are also those that are the most sustainable with the lowest carbon footprint. As they say if all cows in the world performed at same standard as the average US cow would reduce the global carbon […]
Manure-Eating Worms Could Be the Dairy Industry’s Climate Solution
With 6,000 dairy cows, 5,000 beef cattle and thousands of tons of apples, potatoes and cherries produced annually, Royal Dairy in Royal City, Washington, uses hundreds of millions of gallons of water per year. All that water, once used, carries animal waste, pathogens and environmentally harmful chemicals, like nitrate, that can contaminate groundwater and contribute […]
How drones can help dairy farms manage methane emissions
Accurate atmospheric measurements directly over their farm can help farmers fight climate change Dairy farms produce large amounts of two things: milk and poop. Milk finds its way into delicacies like hot cocoa and grilled cheese sandwiches but the poop just piles up. Dairy farmers bulldoze the mess into artificial ponds called manure lagoons, where […]
Dairy sector in India: Can climate change limit its growth?
Only in a matter of three rigorous decades, India transformed its destiny from being a country witnessing acute milk shortage to a country leading the world in milk production, standing at 100 million tonnes in an average year. Operation Flood (1970–1996) helped the rural milk cooperatives flood and nourish the urban dairy sector markets connecting […]
Eating locally grown foods seasonally is more environment friendly
The climate crisis is well and truly here, as we all know, and it’s only natural to wonder how we are all contributing to it. What we eat has far-reaching effects on the environment and the journeys our foods undertake to get to our plates can tell us a lot about climate change. From the […]
“Pathways to Dairy Net Zero” supported by 11 of top 20 dairies
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 percent of global milk production. Launching today during Climate Week and just prior to the United Nations Food Systems Summit, the Pathways to Dairy Net Zero initiative […]
“Pathways to Dairy Net Zero” supported by 11 of top 20 dairies
pathways to dairy net zero dairynews7x7 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 percent of global milk production. Launching today during Climate Week and just prior to the United Nations Food Systems Summit, the […]