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Description: The "Shades of Green" (SOG) dairy farm calculator quantifies the impacts of dairy farm systems on milk and meat production and gross farm revenue, milk nutritional quality, land use, fertilizer and pesticide use, manure and nutrient wastes generated, and methane emissions.
A careful review of previously developed environmental footprint models led to the realization that results have been based on “a year in the life of a cow,” rather than the cow’s productive life which have excluded consideration of the impacts of dairy farm management systems on cow health and longevity, soil quality and productivity, and overall, lifelong economic returns to a lactating cow. Two major conclusions are reached and will be discussed.
Dr. Charles Benbrook is Chief Scientist at The Organic Center, a national non-profit organization that provides peer-reviewed scientific studies on organic farming. Benbrook will present the webinar. He led the 14-person team that co-authored the new report and helped design and parameterize the calculator.
Join us for this free webinar on February 1 from 1:15 to 2:45 p.m. Eastern time (12:15 p.m. Central, 11:15 a.m. Mountain, 10:15 a.m. Pacific). Space is limited. Reserve your webinar seat now. Details
