Organic Dairy Production

Sarah Flack (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

104 Seiten

2011 | Revised and updated edition
Chelsea Green Publishing Co (Verlag)
978-1-60358-351-0 (ISBN)

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There is no simple recipe for setting up and managing a successful organic dairy farm, but this handbook can act as an introduction to important issues in organic dairy production and provide today's organic or transitioning dairy farmer with an overview of the tools and ideas available.

Part of the NOFA guides. Organic Dairy Production includes information on:

Soils, the foundation of health (manure management)
Crop production and grazing management (forage species, pasture management, setting up a grazing system)
Livestock (selection, nutrition, winter and summer feed considerations, seasonal milking, habitat, herd health, milk quality)
Marketing (selling fluid milk, regulations, facility and equipment, selling raw milk)
Recordkeeping
The transition to organic

Features examples from various farms in the Northeast.

Sarah Flack is the author of Organic Dairy Production and a nationally known consultant on grazing and organic livestock. She grew up on a Vermont family farm that used management-intensive grazing and mob stocking. She later studied Holistic Planned Grazing and pursued graduate studies on pasture management at the University of Vermont. She has written extensively about grass farming and is known for teaching workshops that take a practical approach to applying the science of grazing. Sarah has successfully helped many farmers create positive change in their pastures, soils, livestock, finances, and farm-family quality of life.

1. Organic certification: why, how, and what?

2. Soil: the foundation of health

3. Plants: crop production and grazing management

4. Livestock

5. Marketing

6. Record keeping

7. Economics of organic dairy production and the transition to organic

8. Nutritional qualities of grass-fed milk

Reihe/Serie	Organic Principles and Practices Handbook Series ; 5
Illustrationen	Jocelyn Langer
Zusatzinfo	Index; Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort	White River Junction
Sprache	englisch
Maße	153 x 229 mm
Gewicht	181 g
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
Themenwelt	Weitere Fachgebiete ► Land- / Forstwirtschaft / Fischerei
ISBN-10	1-60358-351-3 / 1603583513
ISBN-13	978-1-60358-351-0 / 9781603583510
Zustand	Neuware