General
Company form: Dairy cooperative
Place of business: Westbeemster
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Cash milk price (2023)
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Annual sales (2023)
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Milk supply (2023)
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Cheese production (2023)
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Number of farmers
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Number of cheese makers
History
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2023
CONO drives the Netherlands' first all-electric RMO.
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2021
A new sustainability ambition: positive for future generations
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2021
Most CONO cheeses are vegetarian
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2020
100% GMO-free milk
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2020
Cheese factory climate-neutral certified
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2016
Closure of old cheese factory
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2014
Opening new cheese factory
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2012
Start of construction of new cheese factory
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2008
Launch sustainability programme Caring Dairy
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2002
Start of active promotion of outdoor grazing of dairy cows
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2001
Receipt of the Supplier of the Year predicate
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1901
Establishment of cooperative
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Prices
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World Cheese Awards 2023
Gold for Beemster Old 30+
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Golden Cheese Drill NNKC
Rosanne Sluijs of CONO Cheese Makers wins Golden Cheese Drill during Dutch National Cheese Judging Competition 2023
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Food magazine
Food magazine marketing awards product group cheese
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DLG Awards
Gold for Beemster Young, Beemster Belegen, Beemster X-O, Beemster Goat, Royaal, Royaal Grand Cru and Beemsdammer have Gold and Silver for Beemster Old.
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Sustainable Brand Index
Most sustainable cheese brand according to Dutch consumers
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Industry distribution trophy
Category A-brand fresh
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Avantage Group Report
CONO Cheese makers has been ranked No. 1 within the cheese category in the Advantage Report for the 5th time in a row!
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World Cheese Awards
Beemster Old, Beemster Royaal Grand Cru and Beemster Goat awarded Gold
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Golden Cheese Drill
Cheesemaker Sjoerd Hiemstra wins the Golden Cheese Drill at the NNKC
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Gouda Cheese Awards
Gold for 't Kaas Lokaal at the Gouda Cheese Awards
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Taste test The Telegraph
Beemster 30+ young matured winner in the 30+ taste test
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Industry distribution trophy
Category A-brand fresh
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Food magazine
Food magazine marketing awards product group cheese
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Sustainable Brand Index
Most sustainable cheese brand according to Dutch consumers
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Foodstuffs newspaper
Beemster 30+ best introduction 2020
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Foodpersonality
Captain of the catagory
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Milk Milk and more milk
A fair milk price so farmers can produce the very best milk
CONO Kaasmakers set the cash milk price for 2023 at €47.29 per 100 kilograms.
The cows of our cattle farmers walk an average of 176 days a year, over 10 hours a day in the pasture. All our cheeses are made from 100% pasture-raised milk.
Of the CONO dairy farmers, 97% meet the national grazing standard.
Our milk is 100% GMO-free.
Caring Dairy objectives and results
CARING DAIRY THEME 'HAPPY COWS | |||||||||
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Happy cows | Objective | Results | |||||||
Indicator | until 2025 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | |
1. Dairy cattle grazing | ≥ 180 days OR | Number of days | 175 | 194 | 182 | 185 | 180 | 191 | 176 |
≥ 1440 hours | Number of hours | 1836 | 2074 | 1914 | 1907 | 1891 | 1959 | 1794 | |
2. Grazing young cattle | ≥ 120 days | Number of days | 169 | 173 | 162 | 177 | 175 | ||
3. Closed company | No supply of cattle | % closed companies | 56 | 61 | 63 | 70 | 71 | ||
4. Healthy calves | ≤ 15% calf mortality | % calf mortality | 13 | 12 | 10,53 | 10,19 | 9,22 | 8,83 | 8,89 |
5. Lifetime | ≥ 6 years | Number of days | 2096 | 2078 | 2095 | 2185 | 2256 | 2290 | 2314 |
Number of years | (5 years, 9 months) | (5 years, 8 months) | (5 years, 9 months) | (almost 6 years) | (6 years, 2 months) | (6 years, 3 months) | (6 years, 4 months) | ||
6. Veterinary medicines | ≤ 2 animal day dosage | Animal daily dose | 2,16 | 2,02 | 2,04 | 2,19 | 2,17 | 2,09 | 2,18 |
CARING DAIRY THEME 'MORE GRASS & BIODIVERSITY | |||||||||
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More grass & biodiversity | Objective | Results | |||||||
Indicator | until 2025 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | |
7. Grass in rations | ≥ 15% fresh grass OR | Fresh grass in ration (% dry matter) | 15 | 17 | 17 | 18 | 18 | 18 | 17 |
≥ 60% incl grass silage | Total grass in rations (% dry matter) | 58 | 58 | 59 | 59 | 60 | 60 | 59 | |
8. Homegrown protein | ≥ 65% | % own protein | 69 | 65 | 73 | 70 | 64* | 61* | 62* |
9. Concentrates and by-products | The concentrate ration is ≤ 25 kg/100 kg of milk AND | Kg concentrate / 100 kg milk | 28,5 | 26,5* | 22,3* | 22 | 22,2 | 22,6 | 22,5 |
Concentrates including by-products (in kg dry matter) ≤ 30 kg/100 kg of milk measured | Kg concentrate + by-products / 100 kg milk | 29,6* | 26,8* | 26,7 | 25,8 | 26,8 | 26,5 | ||
10. Agricultural nature management | ≥ 5% of the area | % farms with >5% agricultural nature | 45 | 50 | 51 | 46 | 52 | 48 | 48 |
Area of agricultural nature of the above mentioned group (%) | 26 | 27,8 | 29 | 29 | 26 | 27 | 28 | ||
11. Perennial grassland | ≥ 50% of the area | % permanent pasture | 57 | 60 | 61 | 61 | 62 | 61 | |
* Modified calculation system |
CARING DAIRY THEME 'BETTER ENVIRONMENT & CLIMATE | |||||||||
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Better environment & climate | Objective | Results | |||||||
Indicator | until 2025 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | |
12. Green power and low energy consumption | 100% green power and ≤6 kWh/100kg of measured milk | Power consumption (kWh/100kg milk) | 5,5 | 5,1 | 5,4 | 4,8 | 5,1 | 5,0 | 4,8 |
% of companies purchasing green energy | 46 | 56 | 73 | 80 | 82 | 89 | 90 | ||
13. Own energy | ≥ 25% of electricity relative to total electricity consumption is generated on the farm itself. generated on the farm. | % of companies with energy generation | 24 | 26 | 34 | 38 | 44 | 53 | 63 |
% own energy vs. electricity consumption | 17 | 18 | 22 | 27 | 30 | 40 | 49 | ||
14. Greenhouse gas emissions | ≤120 kg CO2 eq/100 kg measuring milk | CO₂ equivalents / 100 kg milk | 134 | 133 | 134 | 123 | 120 | 119 | 94,6 |
15. N soil surplus | ≤ 150kg N/ha | N soil surplus / ha Nitrogen indicator | 144 | 160 | 134 | 152 | 152 | 166 | 123 |
16. Ammonia emissions | ≤ 75kg NH₃/ha | Ammonia / ha Nitrogen indicator | 66 | 64 | 56 | 58 | 51 | 50 | 50 |
17. Crop protection | ≤ 250 environmental impact points | Number of environmental impact points | 38 | 58 | 45 | 133 | 126 | 66 | 50 |
Glyphosate-free | % of farms glyphosate-free | 88 | 91 | 98 | 99 | 100 | 100 |
CARING DAIRY THEME 'SOCIAL COMMITMENT | |||||||
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Socially involved | Objective | Results | |||||
Indicator | until 2025 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | |
18. Company is open to society | More than 100 unique visitors per year | Average visitors per company | 226 | 175 | 249 | 369 | 420 |
Share of companies with a social side branch (%) | 10,3 | 29,8 | 34,9 | 31,4 | 28,4 |