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Photo by David Briggs: Albert Straus powers a fully electric feed truck with a methane digester on his family dairy.
The vision that Albert Straus, C.E.O. of Straus Family Creamery and a native of Marshall, has for agriculture is uncompromising.
Mr. Straus—who last week celebrated the 25th anniversary of the creamery business that grew out of his father’s dairy ranch—has come a long way from his early days making ice cream. He . . .
Whole Foods Market launched two on-farm pilots with Windfall Bio’s methane reduction technology (methane is a potent greenhouse gas, up to 86 times more powerful than carbon dioxide) at Whole Foods Market suppliers, Darigold and Straus Family Creamery.
“ The project results were extremely impressive, and we are evaluating further opportunities to deploy this technology throughout our network. ”
Joseph Button, VP of Sustainability and Strategic Impact at Straus Family Creamery
An Amazon.com Inc.-backed startup has successfully tested methane-eating microbes that can reduce dairy farm emissions. Windfall Bio has completed a pilot with Straus Family Creamery and California-based Correia Family Dairy
