Cayuga Marketing LLC (CM) is comprised of 22 large farm business owners who own and manage assets in excess of $300 million USD, with 520 employees, who milk approximately 28,000 mature cows at 28 sites and marketed 675,000,000 lbs. (300,000,000 liters) of milk and had gross product sales over $130 million USD in 2008. Initially created to better market the milk, got soon engaged in all aspects of dairy production. A related company was formed in 1997 with a project with Cornell University, looking into a solution for minimizing the loss of nutrients from dairy farms.  In 2002 a national organic residual management company was hired to do a worldwide research for proven technologies that would reduce any nutrient losses, odours, and other negative effects.  Current efforts are to secure a long term energy sale agreement with a utility specialised in renewable energy to collect the biogas and produce electricity with it. A dairy nutritionist is employed to improve coordination of diets and milk attributes, so CM farms have higher levels of milk production per cow and higher quality. A value-added milk processing plant is planned for construction, which will allow short hauls of the raw milk, use of renewable energy, and an efficient warehouse and distribution system. Cayuga Marketing members participated in a successful project to provide funds for cows to villages in Mozambique. The next project under consideration is to develop businesses to provide better job opportunities in Guatemala for skilled employees who return to their motherland.
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Starting with two flour mills in the 1860s, General Mills revolutionized the milling industry by producing flour with superior baking properties. Today, General Mills is the world's 6th largest food company and employs more than 29,000 people around the world. Its global brands include Betty Crocker, Häagen-Dazs, Pillsbury, Green Giant, Old El Paso and Cheerios. General Mills formalized its sustainability program in 2003. Headed by a chief sustainability officer, sustainability team provided one of the first pictures of the total U.S. food industry's environmental impact, including greenhouse gas emissions, water use, energy consumption and solid waste generation. The analysis and framework for measuring a company's environmental impact is being rolled out throughout the company so systematic improvements can be made. For decades, General Mills has worked to improve sustainable agricultural practices with its Green Giant brand of vegetables, including water conservation, and working with contract growers around the world to apply these best practices. The company's Agriculture Research department sets ambitious goals to further reduce environmental impact: reduce insecticide applications, reduce herbicide use, reduce water use by using more efficient drip irrigation technology and by planting non-economic cover crops to hold the soil and nutrients in place, to reduce soil erosion and to create wildlife habitat around agriculture areas.
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NOVUS International, Inc. creates animal health and nutrition solutions based on science.  The NOVUS International team is comprised of more than 600 people which includes doctors of Veterinary Medicine and Nutritionists. The NOVUS vision is to help feed the world affordable, wholesome food and achieve a higher quality of life and their mission is to make a clear difference in sustainably meeting the growing global needs for nutrition and health.
"At NOVUS International, we believe that sound research and development is the foundation for success in developing and delivering health and nutrition solutions to producers, animal nutritionists and veterinarians while working with suppliers and value-chain partners to improve performance and sustainability. It is the combination of satisfying stakeholder demands around the sustainability factors - environment, social and economical -- that is the cornerstone of our commitment to developing products and practices that improve productivity, health, animal well-being and food safety."
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