Regardless of the program(s) that a dairy farmer chooses to participate in, the farmer needs to clearly understand how their data will be managed. For regulatory driven programs, such as the LCFS, the data from the dairy could be made available through a public records request. For all of the offset programs described in this report, the MRV documents generated by the project are publicly available through the registry on which the project is issued. Some data can be redacted depending on the protocol and practices, but significant portions of the information is publicly available. For insetting programs, most of the data can be anonymized. However, the tools used by some of the programs might require the dairy to provide more data. For example, in the seaweed feeding example above, if the insetting company uses the Cool Farm Tool, the dairy operation would be required to report information from its entire operation in order to quantify and report its results to the food company.
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