For the first time, they measured the carbon footprint of 50 dairies and it turned out not bad at all: We were neck and neck with New Zealand and much more.

In a few years, the Argentine dairy sector has made significant progress in addressing the environmental variable linked to its work. With the help of the generational change occurring, but also due to the requirements of external markets and the incentives coming from the industries, dairy farms are accelerating their process to have a well-detailed outline of their environmental footprint. This Wednesday at the 1st Congress on "Environmental Challenges and Opportunities in the Center of the Province of Santa Fe," the first results of the environmental impact measurement in 50 dairy farms were presented. "In the first exercise, we had it in 2023 and 2024, when we selected six producers, we gave a talk to explain what we were going to do, what kind of information we were going to ask for, and then we went out to collect data on the impact per kilo of feed. With that, we made the tool and had the first data," begins María Paz Tieri, the specialist who works at the National ...