KEY POINTSSnow Brand Milk signs cooperation agreement with Alltech Japan on dairy-farm greenhouse gas reductionHokkaido demonstration research uses E-CO2 assessment aligned with International Dairy Federation carbon-footprint guidelinesPartnership explores lower-emission dairy management while maintaining milk-production productivity
The Hokkaido study will use Alltech’s E-CO2 assessment, aligned with IDF carbon-footprint guidelines, to test lower-emission dairy management. Photo by Leslie Saunders on Unsplash
Leslie Saunders
Snow Brand Milk Products Co. has signed a cooperation agreement with Alltech Japan GK to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from dairy farms and improve milk-production performance and sustainability, the Japanese dairy company said on July 7.
The agreement pairs Snow Brand Milk’s Dairy Research Institute with the Japanese unit of Alltech, a U.S.-based animal nutrition group, to begin demonstration research at a dairy farm in Hokkaido using the E-CO2 environmental assessment tool.
Under the partnership, environmental footprints at dairy farms, fields, grassland and other related facilities selected by Snow Brand Milk will be quantified using an assessment by Alltech E-CO2 Ltd. The Alltech E-CO2 dairy farm environmental assessment complies with International Dairy Federation guidelines on carbon footprints.
Based on the assessment results and shared data, the two companies will jointly explore sustainable dairy management methods aimed at cutting greenhouse gas and carbon emissions while maintaining high productivity in milk production.
Snow Brand Milk said the initiative supports group materiality goals that include contributing to sustainable dairy farming and reducing environmental impact. The company also said the work is intended to help build a regenerative dairy and agriculture model.
Alltech Japan, based in Fukuoka, is the Japanese arm of Alltech Inc, which was founded in 1980 and is headquartered in Kentucky in the United States. The group operates in more than 120 countries and supplies agricultural nutrition solutions including natural functional feed additives based on precision nutrition. Its businesses in Japan include the manufacturing, processing, import, export and sale of feed additive materials and functional feed ingredients.
Japan’s dairy industry is concentrated in Hokkaido, the country’s largest milk-producing region. Efforts to measure and reduce farm-level emissions have gained attention as food producers and agricultural suppliers work to align production with broader decarbonization targets.
AloJapan.com