Organic Principles and Practices Handbook

1 primary work

Organic Dairy Production

by Sarah Flack

Published 28 April 2011

Part of the NOFA guides. 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)RecordkeepingThe transition to organic

Featuring examples from various farms in the Northeast.