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Organic Dairy Production (Organic Principles and Practices Handbook Series, Band 5) - Softcover

Buch 7 von 7: Organic Principles and Practices Handbook Series

Flack, Sarah

 
9781603583510: Organic Dairy Production (Organic Principles and Practices Handbook Series, Band 5)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1603583513 ISBN 13: 9781603583510
Verlag: Chelsea Green, 2011

Inhaltsangabe

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.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

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.

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Verlag
Chelsea Green
Erscheinungsdatum
2011
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1603583513
ISBN 13 
9781603583510
Einband
Taschenbuch
Zeichner
Langer Jocelyn
Anzahl der Seiten
104
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