| Healthful organic milk comes from healthy cows…which come from good livestock management including access to high-quality stored forages (hay, silage) and pastures. Which in turn come from healthy soils. The quality of these elements all depend on the observation skills and practices of the farmer, says the author in this detailed manual on organic dairying in the Northeast.
In chapters on soils, plants and livestock, Flack offers the practices developed in her own and other farmers' experiences dairying successfully under organic principles. There's an overview of the many preventive and treatment health options available, and blunt advice for marketing fluid milk and value-added dairy products. Organic Dairy Production discusses the regulations governing both milk and value-added production, labeling and sales.
Profiles of individual farms help shed light on aspects of dairying and value-added production.
Sarah Flack is a sought-after workshop presenter, an agricultural consultant and organic & biodynamic farmer. She does independent organic certification inspections and consults on grass farming and farm design and business management. She has trained in homeopathy for livestock, medicinal herbs and production of value-added meat and dairy products. She helped found the Vermont Grassfarmers Association and is involved with NOFA-VT. She is presently president of the board of directors of the Biodynamic Farming and Gardening Association.
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