NEWS FEED & ADDITIVE MAGAZINE July 2022 85 In 2021, Bel Brands USA partnered with Land O’Lakes, Inc. on a 3-year pilot program to support the adoption of sustainable farming and animal feed production methods to improve soil health and reduce greenhouse gas emissions on one of its supplying dairy farms. Just one year later, the program has yielded meaningful results including a carbon sink of 784 pounds of CO2e per acre per year and acknowledgement of its potential scalability by receiving the Innovation Center for U.S. Dairy Outstanding Supply Chain Collaboration Award. In 2022, the program is expected to expand to include five additional farms ranging in size from 450 to 2,000 cows. The multi-year program is one of the first designed with input from key stakeholders across the supply chain: a leading CPG brand and farmer-owned cooperative with a cutting-edge sustainability tool. This collaboration ensures a program that is accessible and scalable for farms of all sizes with traceability and data measurement through the Truterra™ sustainability tool. In addition to expanding the program to five more Land O’Lakes member dairy farms, the plans for the 2022 program will include a non-dairy cooperative that produces feed for dairy cows. This inclusion of a company at another step in the supply chain aims to further prove the scalability of the program. Bel Brands USA, Land O’Lakes joint project receives US Dairy award International Dairy Cooperatives Forum to be held in Poland The 19th International Dairy Cooperatives Forum, the most important event of the dairy industry in Central and Eastern Europe, will be held in Białystok, Poland on September 7-8, 2022. Representatives of the dairy industry as well as experts and agricultural advisers from many countries will gather in Białystok. During the two-day conference, they will discuss the most current topics related to dairy industry, including challenges related to Russia’s attack on Ukraine, the Covid-19 pandemic and European climate plans. As part of the conference, they will also talk about the condition of the Polish, European and global dairy industry and the challenges posed by the new EU perspective - especially the European Green Deal (achieving climate neutrality of the European Union countries by 2050) and the new Common Agricultural Policy (support from the European Union for farmers). IDCFs community will also consider how the Covid-19 pandemic will change the dairy market. The forum will also promote the cooperative model as optimal for the development of agriculture.
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