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Read moreFacts & figures
General Form of enterprise: dairy cooperative Location: Westbeemster Spot milk price (2021) âŽ43.50 per 100 kg Number of cattle farmers 402 Number of employees 196 (FTE) Annual turnover (2021) âŽ268 million Milk supply (2021) 406 million kilograms Cheese production (2021)...
Read moreCSR report
As a cooperative, you need to make a contribution to a better world. That is what CONO Kaasmakers understands by corporatesocial responsibility. CONO's CSR policy is linked to the Sustainable Development Goal of...
Read morePositive on the farmyard
...carbon farming, which is about sequestering CO2 in the soil and trees. Every dairy farm is different. By 2022, about 100 CONO dairy farmers will have received tailored climate advice. These livestock farmers know to...
Read moreHonorary Guild of North Holland Cheese 2023
...(Eisinga Kaas, Oosterwolde), Evert Fokker (Korver Kaas, Bodegraven) and Wytse Jansma (Poiesz Supermarkten B.V., Sneek). They are admitted to the Honorary Guild because of their contributions to North Holland Cheese. In 1990...
Read moreProjects and developments
...innovation that suits us, think of biogas, hydrogen, geothermal, and heat networks, we'll hook up. Finally, we buy CO2 certificates from climate projects. If possible through ourown livestock farmers....
Read moreSjoerd Hiemstra of CONO Cheese Makers wins Golden Cheese Drill
...variety, stage of maturation, taste and quality. Whether he also tasted a CONO cheese during the inspection? "Absolutely," says Hiemstra. Ijust recognize the taste of ourcheeses. I...
Read moreHonorary Guild of North Holland Cheese 2022
CONO Kaasmakers congratulates Eduard Treur (Treur Kaas, Woerden), Peter Verweij (Kaashandel Remijn, Kerkdriel) on joining the North Holland Cheese Guild of Honor! On Friday, August 26, Mayor Anja Schouten intronized the...
Read morePositive in cheesemaking
...ourregion for obtaining heat sustainably. We have also installed solar panels. And as soon as there's a proven innovation for ourcheese factory that suits us, we'll hook up....
Read moreSustainable stories from our cheesemaking: water
...cheese. CONO takes in aboutas much water per year as all the households in the Beemster combined, over 480 thousand cubic meters in 2022. Amongother things, that water is needed ...
Read moreSustainable stories with farmer Christina Kranenburg
...ago, CONO decided to investigatewhether feeding co-products and/or regional residue streams could contribute to these ambitions. Together with sustainable animal feed specialist Duynie Feed, compound feed supplier Koenis, PPP-Agro advies,...
Read morePositive in milk transport
...Reception) ofthe Netherlands. In addition to the electric RMO, Danmel Transport has had an RMO running on liquid natural gas (Lng) for two years, ultimately reducing CO2 emissions by 20%. Oursecond milk transporter...
Read moreSustainable stories with Wim Betten of CONO Kaasmakers
...packaging." Sustainability Program Caring Dairy We have been making our farms more sustainable for over 10 years through ourCaring Dairy program. We're not just concerned with the climate but also with animal welfare ...
Read moreSustainable water treatment: 12% reduction
...purged by itself. So we can discharge at the right time. Untreated, but asclean as possible. And that in turn saves on the assessment for the water board tax," says Roeland."Climate ambition CONO...
Read moreSustainable stories with farmer Berto Klaver
...exactly how it is on my farm. So yes, I consider me farm pretty sustainable. And I make sure to always be on the safe, animal and climate friendly side."....
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