By Amy Hadachek
for The Fence Post
The dairy industry’s goals for sustainability received a big show of support in mid-November, when the checkoff-founded Innovation Center for U.S. Dairy announced a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. The Innovation Center for U.S. Dairy said this step will allow the EPA to more deeply understand and support U.S. dairy farmers and their sustainability efforts.
This MOU was announced during the fall meeting of the Dairy Sustainability Alliance that was held Nov. 9-10.
“This MOU means we’re collaborating and working together with the EPA. Actually, we’ve been collaborating since 2012 to work with the EPA, and this MOU is more specifically about carbon sequestering,” said Nebraska dairy farmer Lowell Mueller of Vi-View Farm in Hooper on Nov. 14. “In early October, the Innovation Center announced a goal of net zero (carbon neutrality) by 2050. Some farms may meet that goal, others may get cl