Founder and Govt Chair, Straus Household Creamery
Albert Straus is the Founder and Govt Chair of Straus Household Creamery – the primary 100% licensed natural creamery in america. He based the Creamery in 1994, whereas his farm, the Straus Dairy Farm, grew to become the primary licensed natural dairy west of the Mississippi River.
Albert has been a pacesetter in sustainable natural farming practices for a lot of a long time. He’s dedicated to making a carbon-neutral natural dairy farming mannequin on the Straus Dairy Farm. This internationally acknowledged mannequin extends to Straus Household Creamery’s 12 different supplying dairy farms, that are on the trail to being carbon impartial by 2030.
Local weather-positive farming improvements at Albert’s farm embody a methane digester, which converts cow waste into renewable vitality for on-farm automobiles, together with the primary full-scale electrical feed truck; a carbon farming program designed to measure and optimize carbon seize; and a first-of-its-kind trial at his farm in 2021, testing pink seaweed to dramatically scale back enteric methane emissions.
