The report – A Dairy Farm’s Footprint: Evaluating the Impacts of Conventional and Organic Farming Systems – provides the first comprehensive analysis of the environmental footprint of alternative dairy farm management systems.
Emma Hockridge, head of policy at the Soil Association, said: “This new research from America, where mega dairies began, proves how bad for the environment intensive dairy systems can be. It confirms what common sense tells us: when milk is produced in a less intensive way, such as in organic systems, this isn’t only better for the cows, but better for the environment too.”
Source: Soil Association
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