Nestlé partners with dairy firms to scale regenerative agriculture
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Nestlé's dairy sustainability strategy focuses on raising operating standards among its farm partners, Katja Seidenschnur, the company's global head of sustainability for nutrition and health, said during a Climate Week panel. Nestlé has reported a 26% reduction in greenhouse-gas emissions and a 25% reduction in methane emissions across its dairy supply chain since 2018. Seidenschnur said wider adoption would require technical assistance, reliable data, supportive policy conditions and cooperation among companies in the value chain. The company is working with supply-chain partners on ways to finance longer-term investments by farms and create incentives linked to their individual regenerative objectives. Royal Dairy Farming , an industrial and regenerative dairy operation in Washington that supplies Nestlé, is testing regenerative methods with about 7,000 cows. The farm uses composting and worm-based biofiltration to recycle carbon and nutrients, while measuring carbon reductions, waste reuse, fertiliser production and changes in soil health. Austin Allred, the farm's owner, identified access to capital as a major constraint. He said farmers generally need returns within days or weeks, and in a particularly good year might be able to wait about three months if diesel prices fall. Allred said sustainable dairy would work only if farmers were placed at the centre of the...
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