Environmental Solutions for Dairy

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

How Dairy Benefits from Market-Driven Solutions

Learn more about Ecosystem Services Markets and other efforts underway to create a more economically sustainable path to improved water quality.

Recent Newtrient Content

Newtrient Completes NRCS Cooperative Agreement Award to Expand Tools to Support Nutrient-Reduction Programs

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.

AgSTAR Releases Anaerobic Digestion and Biogas Systems Handbook

AgSTAR, in coordination with technical experts, recently released a comprehensive handbook of the latest industry knowledge and best practices for anaerobic digestion (AD) and biogas systems.

Emerging Dairy Feed Additives Show Promise to Significantly Reduce U.S. Dairy’s Environmental Footprint

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.

From the Solutions Catalog

NRCS Practice Standard: Sprinkler System (442)

NRCS Practice Standard: Short Term Storage of Animal Waste and Byproducts (318)

NRCS Practice Standard: Sediment Basin (350)