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Madison Co. Virginia | Chirpfarm, undoubtedly!
Use dairy as an example. The greenest way of producing milk is with no grain, rotational grazing, exclusively perennial pastures, silvopasture, and tree forage crops. Folks who go down this road report needing 10 acres per milk cow to make it work. Even then, they're only producing milk for 9 months out of the year.
In contrast, it's quite doable to raise all the grain, forage, and replacement heifers on slightly over 1 acre per milk cow using conventional systems. These systems can produce twice the amount of milk per cow, and can maintain production straight through the winter. | |
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Maybe this has been posted before and I missed it. Bill to eliminate confinement feeding
