U.S. dairy farmers across the country are increasingly being asked to provide detailed operational data to cooperatives, proprietary processors, and supply-chain partners for sustainability and Scope 3 GHG reporting. These requests can include sensitive data like herd records, feed and manure data, cropping practices, energy use, fuel consumption, and other aspects of farm business management. The requests are occurring even though federal agencies like the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and the EPA under the Biden and Trump administrations stepped back from Scope 3 requirements, citing concerns that they are outside a company’s direct control, controversial, and difficult to regulate and verify. Farmers contacting the American Dairy Coalition say programs tied to the dairy checkoff program’s Innovation Center of U.S. Dairy and Net Zero Initiative through the FARM ES Program appear to be expanding beyond their original voluntary intent.
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