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MEASURING SUSTAINABILITY: Land O Lakes is launching a four-year effort with its 1,600 dairy farmer owners to capture information about sustainability practices. The effort will also aims to help farmers identify opportunities to fine-tune practices. The aim is for its 1,600 dairy farms to complete on-farm assessments of current practices and identify areas of improvement by 2025.
Mar 11, 2021
The word sustainability is being bandied about by a wider range of groups and individuals these days, but what can that mean for the dairy farm? Looks like farmers that sell to Land O lakes or Bel Brands are going to find out. The member-owned cooperative announced today, March 11, new on-farm sustainability commitments to be adopted by its more than 1,600 member-dairy farms by 2025.
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Land O Lakes announces sustainability commitments
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