Newtrient Blog

Rosemont, IL – July 2, 2026 – 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 … Read more

News reinforces support for sustainability initiatives and Athian’s model for facilitating verifiable change across food supply chains INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. [11-19-25] – Athian announced today that it has facilitated $18 million in payments to farmers since 2024, financially rewarding them for implementing emissions-reducing practices, including innovative feed ingredients and alternative manure management. Athian, which was founded … Read more

The following write up is courtesy of the American Biogas Council (June 2025). Shared with permission. View the original press release at americanbiogascouncil.org. To close out National Dairy Month, the American Biogas Council (ABC) looked at the current biogas landscape in the U.S. dairy sector and the potential for growth, with the following results: As … Read more

Media Contact: Jamie Vander Molen BoehlSVP, Sustainability Initiatives & Business Development, Newtrient [email protected](312) 898-8218 ROSEMONT, IL – Nov. 28, 2023 – On November 1, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) awarded Newtrient three grants totaling over $18 million in funding to support dairy methane emission reduction projects in the Midwest and Idaho. The funding is part … Read more

Our partners at Athian were recently featured with Farm Journal in a review of Livestock Sustainability systems. In “Livestock Sustainability: A Push to Change A Mitigating Climate” Farm Journal explores the importance of collaboration across the value chain to meet emissions reduction goals, and the role that Athian has in ensuring the benefits of that collaboration work its way … Read more

Media Contact: Jamie Vander Molen BoehlVP, Sustainability Initiatives, [email protected](312) 898-8218 ROSEMONT, IL – Feb. 2, 2023 – Today, Newtrient, an environment and technical resource company assisting U.S. dairy farmers with economically reducing their environmental footprint, announced an investment in Athian, a carbon credit marketplace for livestock producers to work collaboratively to reach dairy sustainability targets. … Read more

Chris Kopman discusses practices dairy farmers can adopt to reduce their environmental impact.

Between 2018 and 2020, Newtrient and its partners worked to advance environmental marketplace solutions and tools to improve water quality through a program funded by a Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS). Utilizing a Cooperative Agreement award, the project focused on expanding tools that could be used in market-based approaches to address water quality challenges in Vermont and Wisconsin.

Newtrient, in collaboration with the Innovation Center for U.S. Dairy and leading agriculture environmental experts, released an update on the potential of dairy feed additives for reducing dairy’s environmental footprint.

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The Wisconsin State Assembly today passed legislation sponsored by Senator Cowles (R-Green Bay), Representative Kitchens (R-Sturgeon Bay), Senator Miller (D-Monona) and Representative Fields (D-Milwaukee) which would accelerate Wisconsin’s water quality trading programs, leading to a more economically sustainable path to improve the state’s water quality.