Synopses & Reviews
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)
- Recordkeeping
- The transition to organic
Featuring examples from various farms in the Northeast.
Synopsis
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.
About the Author
Sarah Flack is a sought-after workshop presenter, an agricultural consultant and an organic & biodynamic farmer. She was raised on a family farm in northern Vermont where she still lives. She has worked on organic and non-organic dairy, vegetable, sheep and beef farms. She does independent organic certification inspections of farms and processing facilities and consults on grass farminf, farm design, farm business management and planning. Sarah has trained in homeopathy for livestock, medicinal herbs, production of value-added meat and dairy products, leadership, and non profit and organizational development. She helped found the Vermont Grassfarmers Association and is involved with NOFA-VT and other agricultural organizations. She is presently president of the board of directors of the Biodynamic Farming and Gardening Association.