John Deere and DeLaval Launch Milk Sustainability Center

John Deere and DeLaval have unveiled the Milk Sustainability Center, a digital tool designed to help dairy farmers improve efficiency and sustainability while adapting to evolving regulations.

The platform integrates both agronomic and animal performance data into a unified system.

Dairy farmers can use the Milk Sustainability Center to monitor nutrient use efficiency and carbon dioxide equivalent (CO2e) emissions across their farms, herds and fields.

By collecting and analyzing data from multiple sources, the system provides actionable insights to enhance nutrient management and reduce the need for manual data input.

“The Milk Sustainability Center is designed with input from dairy farmers to help them increase their productivity and efficiency and enable them to address the needs of dairy processors, retailers and consumers,” Dave Chipak, director product management at John Deere, said.

“Integration of agronomic and animal performance data will give farmers the future ability to benchmark the data and utilize recommendations to make real-time changes that provide for an increase in productivity and a reduction in CO2e emissions.”

Powered by Dairy Data Warehouse BV, a Dutch firm with more than a decade of experience in sustainable dairy farming, the cloud-based platform integrates John Deere's agronomic data and DeLaval’s animal data systems.

This streamlined approach reduces manual entry and allows consultants like nutritionists and agronomists to provide more comprehensive recommendations.

“Dairy farming involves using multiple unconnected software solutions,” Lars Bergmann, executive vice president of digital service at DeLaval, explained.

“The Milk Sustainability Center links these different systems into one platform. This integration reduces the need for manual data entry and provides farmers with a comprehensive view of their farms’ sustainability. The tool helps identify where farmers can save money and improve their sustainability efforts by highlighting nutrient losses and offering recommendations for reduction.”

Currently, the Milk Sustainability Center is available at no cost to a select group of farmers in the United States, Netherlands and Germany, with plans to expand globally. Interested dairy farmers in these regions are encouraged to join the waiting list as the platform is rolled out.