Dairy Sustainability

This is Tim Hammerich of the Ag Information Network with your Farm of the Future Report.

The dairy industry has received backlash in recent years for animal agriculture's overall climate impact. Partially as a result, dairy farmers aren't always keen on showing the good that's happening on their farms. Dairy operators Rob and Erica Diepersloot are taking this opportunity to use their bovine colostrum platform, WonderCow, to show how sustainable dairy farms really are.

Diepersloot... " Even over the past five years, dairy has changed. Like from a sustainability standpoint, and especially here in California is kind of leading the world when it comes to sustainability with all these new digesters going in and these feed additives that just take away methane, you know. California is investing in these technologies and it helps us on-farm, but it also helps us in the public side of just the impact that we're having on, yeah, sustainability. One particular dairyman might not feel like he has a stage to express this is the good that the dairy industry is doing, right? Like this is actually how we're, instead of contributing to global warming, for example, we're actually carbon-negative. Like, as in, we're not just consuming energy, we are giving more. Us starting a company and now like the world, or at least, you know, the U.S. recognizing WonderCow as a company kind of gives us a little bit of a platform. Like if they recognize WonderCow and then realize that we're dairy farmers, then we can be the voice of dairy to show the good that's happening in the industry, and that's super exciting."

Learn more at www.wondercow.com