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Re: Super Dairy

I think the headline says it all... "The toxic truth about mega-farms: Chemical fumes, distressed animals and poisoned locals driven from their homes and worse." What do you think? Anybody for a calm and rational debate on the issue of large dairying?

Posted to Talking Point (Forum) by scott casey on Mon, Jul 5 2010
USA dairy trip

Hello all, If anyone has questions about large scale dairy farming I'm heading over to the USA on Sunday(June 6th) to spend a week touring large and small scale farms in Wisconsin and Illinois. I can be contacted via the forums or on Twitter @scottjmcasey. Cheers Scott

Posted to Talking Point (Forum) by scott casey on Fri, Jun 4 2010
Saturday rant

So the debate about the UK’s first super dairy rumbles on. Politicians have now signed an early day motion against the proposed £50m, 8000-head unit in Lincolnshire, while environmental and animal welfare groups like the RSPCA say they’re ‘very concerned’ about the plans. The...

Posted to nufsaid (Weblog) by anonymous on Sat, Mar 20 2010
A super dairy

After almost a week of meetings it was great to get out on-farm today. We drove into Pennsylvania to look at a high-tech, robotic milking system. It was an impressive setup – 2400 cattle milking more than 27m litres of milk a year. While hygiene and welfare were obviously impeccable, it did make...

Posted to nufsaid (Weblog) by anonymous on Wed, Mar 10 2010

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