Kooiker - 11/15/2020 06:41
kipps - 11/14/2020 17:30
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.
Is a system that produces 1/2 as much on 10 times the acres really the “greenest way to produce milk”?
Think about how many acres it would take to produce the same quantity of milk. Those acres have to get added on top of current acres unless someone
(lots of someone’s
) is willing to quit drinking milk if we go down that road.
Maybe this has been posted before and I missed it. Bill to eliminate confinement feeding
