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Read moreFacts & figures
...34 thousandtons History 1901 Founding of cooperative 2001 Receipt ofCourt Supplier designation 2002 Start of active encouragement of grazing dairy cows 2008 Start of sustainability program Caring Dairy 2012 Start of construction of new cheese factory 2014 Opening of...
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
On the farm We are always working to reduce ourcarbon emissions. Ourdairy farmers have been working with the Caring Dairy program for years, using their craft to benefit...
Read moreHonorary Guild of North Holland Cheese 2023
...invited four individuals, who have made themselves deserving of North Holland cheese, to jointhis guild. Many prominent figures from the cheese trade and industry have since been intronized....
Read moreProjects and developments
...On the farm, we are exploringthe possibilities of such thingsas circular farming andcarbon farming, which is about sequestering CO2 in the soil. And as soon as there is a proven...
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 joiningthe North Holland Cheese Guild of Honor! On Friday, Aug. 26, Mayor Anja Schouten intronized the...
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 Wim Betten of CONO Kaasmakers
...and continuity for ourdairy farmers. Cow in the Pasture thus remains a spearhead. The program includes 18 indicators, many of which affect ourclimate score. Ourdairy farmers ...
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
...to keep the floors asclean as possible. In addition, Berto measures nitrogen, ammonia, CO2 and humidity in the barn. The results are compared to the amounts that other sensors...
Read moreSustainable stories with farmer Sandra Oudshoorn
...is focused on making the entire chain sustainable from cow tocheese. Together with about twelve other dairy farmers from the area, Sandra forms the study club 'Beemster...
Read morePositive in cheesemaking
...Climate Neutral Group already awarded usthe certificate for a climate neutral organization in 2020. We are investigatinghow to get rid of gas and whether it is possible to meet...
Read moreSustainable stories with farmer Dick Ubbels
...Amongotherthings, by looking for birds' nests and putting sticks to them so that no accidentshappen when tilling the ground. "Nature is sometimes smarter than we are," ...
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