Practical Dairy Sustainability Tips for Immediate Impact
Listen in as Tara Vander Dussen, a fifth generation dairy farmer, environmental scientist, and cohost of the podcast Discover Ag, talks us through hands-on sustainability tweaks for dairy farms. Water, electricity, and manure management are all candidates for small changes that can make big impacts to the whole farm’s overall environmental impact.
Dig deeper for more resources:
- “Reducing Energy Use on the Dairy Farm” by UMass Amherst.
- “Water Conservation and Use on Dairy and Livestock Farms” by University of New Hampshire Extension.
This is the last episode in our series on sustainable dairy management. If you enjoyed this episode, check out the other episodes in the series:
- “Understanding (& Reducing) Dairy Greenhouse Gas Emissions”
- “What We Know (& Don’t Know) About Enteric Methane Emissions”
- “Curbing Enteric Methane Emissions with Feed Additives: Opportunities & Costs for On-Farm Use”
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