Articles Tagged with ''sustainability in the dairy industry''

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18 Dean Foods plants meet Energy Star challenge

Highlights of the 2012 Corporate Responsibility Report include progress toward 2020 environmental sustainability goals, animal welfare and dairy stewardship updates, and new web-based reporting format on deanfoods.com.
December 18, 2012

Highlights from the 2012 Corporate Responsibility Report include: achievement by 18 processing plants of the Energy Star Challenge for Dairy in just two years, meeting the five-year goal to reduce energy use by 10 percent three years early. 


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Clay Defletson

Use metrics to measure sustainability efforts

Measuring sustainability practices involves many variables. There is no one-size-fits-all approach that works for all operations. Metrics take differences into consideration.
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Clay Detlefsen
December 18, 2012
Consumers continue to demand tasty and nutritious products that are produced in an environmentally responsible way. As a result, retailers and foodservice companies have heightened interest in the sustainability of their suppliers, and environmental organizations have ratcheted up their sustainability assessments of industries and businesses.
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Clay Defletson

Dairy digesters benefit supply chain, local community

In New York state, two dairy processing plants that turn waste into energy (biogas), have created enough renewable energy to heat about 2,600 typical homes in the Northeast for one year.
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Clay Detlefsen
August 17, 2012
Communities, industries, businesses and consumers are seeking options to incorporate renewable energy for many reasons, whether it is to offset the rising cost of fossil fuels, to be energy independent or to reduce the strain of a growing population depleting finite resources.
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Tom Gallagher

Nutrition and sustainability—positioning dairy's noble cause

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Tom Gallagher
June 11, 2012

Since 1944, the U.S. dairy industry has been producing a gallon of milk with 90% less land, 65% less water, 76% less manure, and a 63% smaller carbon footprint. The Fuel Up to Play 60 program is recognized nationwide for improving nutrition in schools, with an emphasis on the importance of physical fitness. Through their checkoff, dairy farmers have made a $250 million commitment over five years to this program alone. And this has shown tangible results.


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Gail Barnes

A new tool to help choose eco-friendly packaging

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Dr. Gail Barnes
June 6, 2012
Consumers today care increasingly about the environment, and they expect the products they buy to be produced in an environmentally responsible way. Milk is no exception. In fact, a study conducted for the Innovation Center for U.S. Dairy showed that frequent milk users are more engaged in environmental issues than less frequent milk consumers.
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Perry's ice cream management

How our team approaches sustainability

A cross-functional sustainability team asks “why not?” as it examines processes and procedures.
May 15, 2012
At Perry’s Ice Cream, our family continues the tradition of making the same high-quality ice cream that founder H. Morton Perry crafted nearly a century ago in 1918.
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