The U.S Dairy Export Council is touting the sustainability benefits

of the nation’s dairy industry to global food professionals this week.

Krysta Harden, Executive Vice President of Global

Environmental Strategy for Dairy Management Inc. and Interim Chief Operating

Officer at USDEC, points to a recent study published in the Journal of Animal

Science.

“Producing a gallon of milk in the U.S. involved 30 percent less water, 21 percent less land, and a 19 percent smaller footprint just between ’07 and ’17.”

She says from feed to post-consumer waste, the dairy industry contributes only two percent of all U.S.

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