Sainsbury’s improve the supply chain of its milk
17th December 2007
Last autumn, Sainsbury’s announced it was trying something new with the way it sourced its milk.
For example, the DDG standard will require members to record more data on-farm and implement a herd health plan. Sainsbury’s will fully fund milk recording on all members’ farms.
It will also pay for quarterly visits by the local vet to monitor data and cattle and advise on an ongoing health plan, and for a visit every 18 months or so by a ‘flying vet’ from outside the area with specialist knowledge of problem identified as particularly troublesome to the farm.
It will provide carbon footprint audits to encourage farmers to cut down on greenhouse gas emissions and ‘green tools’ like solar panels to heat water to help them do so.
Sainsbury’s will support the 40 per cent or so of members not yet signed up to Entry Level Stewardship get them on to the scheme
