Milk Sustainability Center – Regional Expansion and New Strategic Partner John Deere
OLATHE, Kansas (September 12, 2025) —
Today, John Deere (NYSE: DE) and DeLaval announce the Milk Sustainability Center expansion to dairy farmers in more countries and welcome dsm-firmenich as the next Strategic Partner.
Designed to enhance the efficiency and sustainability of dairy farming operations, the Milk Sustainability Center offers a unique solution by integrating data on crop, animal and feeding performance into one unified platform.
Developed through a joint effort initiated in September 2023, the Milk Sustainability Center empowers farmers to optimize their operations, reduce environmental impact and become more profitable.
Dairy farmers can use the Milk Sustainability Center to monitor nutrient use efficiency (NUE) and carbon dioxide equivalent (CO2e) across their farm, herd, and fields. It provides insights to help farmers manage nutrient utilization effectively and reduce the need for manual data input. Today, dairy farmers can choose to create automized data flow to MSC from 30 Herd-, Milking- and Feeding software. Farmers can also invite their consultants, dealers, veterinarians and other partners to access the platform.
Regional Expansion
The Milk Sustainability Center is designed to serve dairy farmers, independent of their farm machinery brands, feeding technology, milking equipment brands, or herd management software. It is now fully available in 13 countries across North America and Europe. Farmers can easily subscribe free of charge at www.milksustainabilitycenter.com.
The highly innovative digital ecosystem addresses evolving sustainability standards and the growing demands for sustainable practices in dairy farming.
Alexander Berges, Production System Manager at John Deere says, “We’re already working on future additions like benchmarking and recommendations functionality. This will further help farmers being more profitable while improving their sustainability.”
Strategic Partner
dsm-firmenich joins the Milk Sustainability Center as a Strategic Partner. Dsm-firmenichs’s software Sustell™ is the industry leading lifecycle assessment (LCA) solution that helps the agricultural industry measure and improve sustainability performance. This partnership will allow primary data to flow from MSC to the Sustell™ software, if the farmer agrees. This will further enhance MSC functionality with extra Sustell™ data sources and certified carbon footprint calculations, supporting the customers to drive profitable environmental improvements.
Dr. David Nickell, Vice President of Sustainability and Business Solutions at dsm-firmenich Animal Nutrition & Health, commented: “The partnership between the Milk Sustainability Center and dsm-firmenich makes environmental impact assessment scalable and easier to implement. This will enable value chain partners to regularly track sustainability performance and to understand where and how to make profitable improvements with credible and transparent data and insights.”
Lars Bergmann, Executive Vice President of Digital Service at DeLaval, explains: “We aim to unify the industry to support dairy farmers improving their sustainability footprint. Partnerships like this will provide farmers with integrated tools that simplify automatic data flow, and enhance herd and field performance, which will support long-term sustainability goals. Processors and consumer goods companies will benefit from a more transparent supply chain, strengthened by verifiable sustainability credentials.”
The Milk Sustainability Center welcomes partners in addition to Dinamica Generale and dsm-firmenich to join its mission to provide farmers with the comprehensive data and insights needed for a holistic view of the efficiency and sustainability in their dairy operations. For more information, potential partners are welcome to contact us at inquiries@milksustainabilitycenter.com
About John Deere
It doesn’t matter if you’ve never driven a tractor, mowed a lawn, or operated a dozer. With John Deere’s role in helping produce food, fiber, fuel, and infrastructure, we work for every single person on the planet. It all started nearly 200 years ago with a steel plow. Today, John Deere drives innovation in agriculture, construction, forestry, turf, power systems, and more.
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About DeLaval
Our vision is to make sustainable food production possible. As a company built on innovation, we constantly work to find ways of helping our customers, dairy farmers, do more with less by providing world-leading milking equipment and solutions.
Today, DeLaval has approximately 4,500 passionate professionals operating in more than 100 markets around the world. DeLaval is part of the Tetra Laval Group.
About dsm-firmenich
dsm-firmenich Animal Nutrition & Health is committed to transforming global animal farming into a more sustainable, productive and profitable industry. Their mission is to empower the agriculture sector to meet the needs of a growing population while staying within planetary boundaries. Through science-based innovation and close collaboration with customers, they offer solutions and precision services that improve animal nutrition, health and performance. The company is bringing expertise in precision livestock farming to the MSC partnership through digital and artificial intelligence technologies that enable farmers to make real-time, data driven decisions regarding farm management and the sustainability of farm animal production.
Sustell™, a key enabler to more sustainable farming, is the industry leading solution that allows precise, credible measurement of the environmental impact of farming operations enabling producers to make informed decisions on how and where to make profitable improvements to unlock significant business value while satisfying the needs of the value chain.
The company has introduced artificial intelligence and data-driven insights into smartphone farm management apps starting in 2022 to help farmers save time and profitably manage their farms. Recently, the firm introduced the latest version of its AI-enabled farm management app, FamTell™ LORE Milk, in Brazil followed by Europe.
