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Summary highlights dairy industry’s efforts to increase economic, environmental and social sustainability.

The Agriculture Nutrient Policy Council releases report raising questions about data to set pollution limits for the Chesapeake Bay Watershed.

Funding deadline set for March 4, 2011.

Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today commemorated the one year anniversary of an historic agreement to help U.S. dairy producers cut greenhouse gas emissions.

Rock Creek Dairy project is the fourth digester in Idaho’s Magic Valley and the first to take effluent from multiple sites.

As new Rule 4570 is adopted, dairy families credited for efforts to improve air quality.

Western United Dairymen is seeking a few dairies for a project to demonstrate a water balance approach to perform lagoon sealing measurements for dairy manure storage ponds.

Byline: Benzinga StaffMANHEIM, Pa.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Kreider Farms, one of Pennsylvania’s largest dairyfarms, announces the groundbreaking of a multi-million dollar livestock waste treatment system as part of a joint venture with Bion Environmental Technologies, Inc. Located at Kreider’s Farm in Manheim, Pa., the Cleantech facility is the first of its kind in the state and is designed to treat and recycle manure from the Farms’ 2,000 dairy cows in an eco-friendly manner. Bion’s patented technology provides a solution to the pollution associated with livestock operations, eliminating most of theenvironmental impacts of animal waste, including excess nutrients, ammonia, phosphorus, and greenhouse gases.

An ambitious planning application for Britain’s largest dairy farm, resubmitted Nov. 18, reveals significant changes.

The retailer will buy more from small and mid-sized farmers around the world, reduce food waste, and sustainably source key agricultural products.