Our Mission
Reduce the environmental footprint of dairy and make it economically viable to do so.
Our Priorities
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Manure-Based Products
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Environmental Markets
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Innovative Solutions
Advancing Sustainability Through Technology Evaluations
Learn how Newtrient’s comprehensive technology evaluations are uncovering the potential of innovative technologies to reduce dairy’s environmental footprint.
Featured Content
News: Newtrient to Provide Technical Assistance for $46 Million DFA AMP Grant
Blog: Newtrient Completes USDA-NRCS Conservation Innovation Grant to Advance Sustainable Dairy Manure Management
DSWR Progress Update for 2025 Now Available
Dairy Farmers of America (DFA) has been awarded $46 million through USDA’s Advancing Markets for Producers (AMP) program to coordinate conservation practice implementation across its farmer-owner farms. As a program partner, Newtrient is providing technical assistance to participating farms throughout the two-year program including on-site assessments, data collection, and practice selection. Newtrient will also support the implementation of manure management technologies for those farms that choose to focus on that practice.
Newtrient has completed a multi-year, nationwide evaluation of 15 dairy manure treatment technologies and practices. This work is supported by the USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) through its Conservation Innovation Grants (CIG) funding. The project assessed each technology for effectiveness, practicality, and environmental impact, with a focus on improving water quality.
The Dairy Soil & Water Regeneration (DSWR) project team has released its Progress Update for 2025. The report presents the status of the main tasks in the framework of the eight-year multistate project — baseline data collection, field trials, and outreach and modeling — and looks at metrics, findings to date for each research team and key takeaways. This past year marked the completion of field work in multiple extensive trials and the beginning of comprehensive data analysis in the project, which began in 2021.
