FrieslandCampina is a key provider to McDonald’s, offering it important dairy components.
The events have been working collectively for over 30 years. The partnership has advanced to embody a broader mission, specializing in lowering the carbon footprint related to dairy manufacturing.
Roger Lavatory, president {of professional} and buying and selling at FrieslandCampina, stated the dairy cooperative seems to be to measure and monitor its progress by way of sustainability targets and driving enchancment, and the partnership with McDonalds means it might probably proceed to assist and reward its member dairy farmers for his or her efforts in relation to local weather and biodiversity.
FrieslandCampina contains 15,137 dairy farmers members, that are unfold throughout the Netherlands, Belgium, and Germany.
Extra alliances
Partnerships are key in relation to accelerating on-farm carbon footprint discount, in line with the Dutch group, which additionally introduced, in June this 12 months, that it was partnering with Mondelēz Worldwide over a four-year interval. The aim of that tie-up is for its cooperative farmers to cut back the GHG emissions of milk provided to the chocolate and biscuit producer by round 14% in 2025, in comparison with 2019.
That partnership will profit all member dairy farmers within the Netherlands, Belgium and Germany who cut back GHG emissions on their farms.
And, final 12 months, FrieslandCampina collaborated with Agrifirm and DSM to allow the primary large-scale on-farm use of methane emissions focused feed additive, Bovaer.
The six-month program, which began within the second half of 2022, concerned 158 dairy farms and 20,000 cows within the Netherlands. The initiative led to a lower of 10,000 tons of CO2e in methane emissions, reported the companions.
“The trial confirmed that Bovaer can simply be launched at scale with out affecting animal well being, milk manufacturing or milk composition. This work helps the faster adoption of Bovaer by the dairy sector, lowering greenhouse gasoline (GHG) emissions and serving to the Netherlands to achieve its local weather targets,” stated DSM.
Beginning this 12 months, farmers within the Netherlands which can be utilizing Bovaer of their feed will be acknowledged for his or her efforts by the KringloopWijzer program.
Monitoring and monitoring progress
FrieslandCampina makes use of the monitoring device, the Annual Nutrient Biking Evaluation (KringloopWijzer), to trace progress and reward member dairy farmers. That device provides farm-specific insights and outcomes on local weather and biodiversity. By means of the Foqus planet sustainable improvement program, cooperative farmers obtain a monetary premium on the premise of their outcomes on local weather, biodiversity, pasture grazing, animal well being and animal welfare.
Members have prior perception into what sure sustainability outcomes on the farm yield financially. The premium for the outcomes that member dairy farmers obtain in relation to GHG emissions can run as much as €1.50 per 100 kilos of milk.
“This premium gives an incentive and makes it doable for member dairy farmers to proceed to spend money on making their very own dairy farm extra sustainable,” a spokesperson for the cooperative advised this publication beforehand.
