As dairy farms have scaled to maintain viability, they’ve achieved efficiency improvements and tremendous increases in production. But they’ve also moved to more anaerobic manure management and off-farm feed production and sourcing. How these changes net out for climate and sustainability is complicated. We sort through these trends alongside the more recent boom in demand related to the protein craze to sort out what it means for farmers and the climate.

The sustainable agriculture movement in the US has matured markedly in the last decade. Key developments include more sharing - of data and costs - between supply chain partners and producers working together to achieve emissions reductions. But, with a new Administration in the White House, how might things change?