The new Dairy Strong Sustainability Alliance (DSSA) launched this week was inspired by a sustainability themed installment of the U.S. Farmers and Ranchers Alliance (USFRA) Food Dialogues panel discussion held earlier this year as part of a Dairy Business Association (DBA) conference.

“After the Food Dialogue on sustainability at the January Dairy Strong event, we sat down and said ‘Now what? As an industry and a dairy community, how do we advance sustainability across Wisconsin?,'” said DBA Executive Director Tim Trotter. “So the collaborators got together and decided to put together a sustainability alliance that brings tools to the farms and gives farmers tools to be more sustainable.”

Collaborators include DBA, Yahara Pride Farms, the Wisconsin Cheese Makers Association, Dairy Management Inc. (DMI), and The Nature Conservancy.

“What we’re bringing is a toolbox to farmers, so these programs have already been developed. So whatever specific goals a farmer may have, we can give them whatever resources they need, and they have already been developed and are ready for use,” said Trotter. “We aren’t producing anything, we’re a group of collaborators that connect the dots between farmers ad the programs that are already available to them.”

Learn more in this interview with Tim:
Interview with Tim Trotter, Dairy Business Association

View and download photos from the event here:Dairy Strong Sustainability Alliance Photo Album