Organic Dairy Production

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.