{"id":40,"date":"2008-07-26T09:15:47","date_gmt":"2008-07-26T14:15:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/pasture\/2008\/07\/26\/environmental-sustainability-of-dairies\/"},"modified":"2008-07-26T09:15:47","modified_gmt":"2008-07-26T14:15:47","slug":"environmental-sustainability-of-dairies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/pasture\/2008\/07\/26\/environmental-sustainability-of-dairies\/","title":{"rendered":"Environmental Sustainability of Dairies"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was reading an article on Grist.org about new efforts in the dairy industry to incorporate more sustainable practices, and a recent Dairy Sustainability summit. The article wasn\u2019t terribly detailed, but did make a statement that<\/p>\n

\u201cNumerous studies have demonstrated that organic dairy production produces between one-half to one-third fewer greenhouse-gas emissions and uses about 30 percent less energy than conventional dairy production.\u201d<\/p>\n

At the end of the article, a blog discussion requested the writer\u2019s source documents, which she provided below. I poked around to find some online links to them, if you\u2019d like to learn more.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

Weiske, A., Vabitsch, A., Olesen, J.E., Schelde, K., Michel, J., Friedrich, R., Kaltschmitt, M., 2005. Mitigation of greenhouse gas emissions in European conventional and organic dairy farming. Agric. Ecosyst. Environ. <\/a><\/p>\n

Olesen, et al., 2006. Modelling greenhouse gas emissions from European conventional and organic dairy farms. Agric. Ecosyst. Environ. 112, 207-220) (I couldn\u2019t find this article online, but a similar study is linked.\u2014JC)<\/a><\/p>\n

Gronroos et al., 2006. Energy use in conventional and organic milk and rye bread production in Finland. Agric. Ecosyst. Environ. 117, 109-118. <\/a><\/p>\n

Cederberg et al., 2000. Life Cycle Assessment of milk production- a comparison of conventional and organic farming. Journal of Cleaner Production. 8, 49-60.<\/a><\/p>\n

Finally, there was also a link to the key targets of the recent summit<\/a>, from the National Milk Producers Federation web site.<\/p>\n

Jenn<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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