This collection reviews the wealth of recent research on how organic dairy farming can best meet the key organic principles of health, ecology, fairness and care. The book also considers how the organic dairy sector is addressing challenges such as improving welfare and sustainability.
The dairy sector continues to face increasing scrutiny for its environmental impact and contribution to climate change. It must also address consumer concerns surrounding issues such as animal welfare, antibiotic usage/resistance and the ethics of intensive production systems.
Advances in organic dairy cattle farming considers how organic dairy farming has the potential to address these challenges whilst also meeting the key organic principles of health, ecology, fairness and care. The book reviews advances in areas such as breeding, optimising pasture-based nutrition and organic milk quality, improving the health and welfare of calves and adult cows, as well as promoting biodiversity and the move to a more circular, sustainable bioeconomy.
- Highlights the potential role organic dairy farming can play in addressing some of the key challenges facing the dairy sector
- Considers how the one-welfare perspective can be utilised to optimise the welfare of calves, adult cows and the humans that care for them
- Shows how pasture-based nutrition can contribute to improved cattle health and welfare, product quality and sustainability
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This 400-page book explores how organic dairy farming addresses challenges including environmental impact, animal welfare and antibiotic resistance. The book is aimed at academics, international policy professionals and organic farmers seeking research-based guidance, however it would also be a valuable addition to undergraduate reading lists in food science, biological sciences and agriculture. This is a timely and well-written resource. (Book Review Published in the International Journal of Dairy Technology)
1. Organic dairy farming in Europe: building on the past to develop the
future: Mette Vaarst, Aarhus University, Denmark; Lindsay K. Whistance, The
Organic Research Centre, UK; and Steve Roderick, Duchy College, UK;
Part 1 Improving breeding and nutrition
2. Organic dairy cattle breeding: possibilities and challenges: Morten Kargo,
Julie Brastrup Clasen and Margot Slagboom, Aarhus University, Denmark;
3. Optimizing soils, pasture and grassland management for organic dairy
farming: Stephen Roderick, Duchy College, UK and Hannah Jones, Farm Carbon
Toolkit, UK;
4. Assessing milk quality from organic production: Gillian Butler and Hannah
Davis, Newcastle University, UK;
Part 2 Improving health, welfare and life opportunities
5. The value of One Health and One Welfare approaches in promoting the health
and welfare of organic dairy cattle: Lindsay Whistance, The Organic Research
Centre, UK;
6. The lives of calves from organic dairy farms: Kerstin Barth, J. H. von
Thünen Institute - Federal Research Institute for Rural Areas, Forestry and
Fisheries, Germany; Julie Fųske Johnsen, Norwegian Veterinary Institute,
Norway; Marie Haskell, SRUC, UK; Silvia Ivemeyer, J. H. von Thünen Institute
- Federal Research Institute for Rural Areas, Forestry and Fisheries,
Germany; and Mette Vaarst, Aarhus University, Denmark;
7. Improving herd health management and disease prevention in organic dairy
cattle farming: Dr Lisa Morgans, Royal Agricultural University/(formerly
Innovation for Agriculture), UK; Catarina Svensson, Swedish University of
Agricultural Sciences, Sweden; Julie Duval, National Research Institute for
Agriculture, Food and the Environment (INRAE), France; and Silvia Ivemeyer,
Thünen Insititute - Institute of Organic Farming, Germany;
8. The use of plant bio-active compounds and other alternative therapeutic
strategies in organic dairy farming: Maria Groot, Wageningen University &
Research. The Netherlands; Ariane Maeschli and Michael Walkenhorst, Research
Institute for Organic Agriculture (FiBL), Switzerland;
9. Improving the management of parasites in organic dairy farming: Stig M.
Thamsborg, Andrew Williams, and Helena Mejer, University of Copenhagen,
Denmark; Nadine Ravinet, INRAE, France; Miguel Peńa-Espinoza, University of
Veterinary Medicine Vienna, Austria; and Philip J. Skuce, Moredun Research
Institute, UK;
10. An ethical framework for the use of technology in organic dairy farming:
David Christian Rose, Harper Adams University, UK; Juliette Schillings,
University College Dublin, Ireland; and Eden Keily-Thurstain, formerly
University of Cambridge, UK;
Part 3 Improving sustainability
11. Integration of organic dairy cows into a whole farm context: Stephen
Roderick, Duchy College, UK and Lindsay Whistance, The Organic Research
Centre, UK;
12. How can organic dairy farming address and improve biodiversity and
healthy ecosystems?: Will Simonson, The Organic Research Centre, UK;
13. Market structures of organic dairy farming and consumer attitudes towards
organic milk processing: Otto Schmid, Research Institute of Organic
Agriculture, Switzerland; Hanna Stolz, Research Institute of Organic
Agriculture, Switzerland; Karlotta Koch, University of Hohenheim, Germany;
and Claudia Meier, Research Institute of Organic Agriculture, Switzerland;
14. Organic dairy farming as part of sustainable ecological and social food
systems: Mette Vaarst, Aarhus University, Denmark; Adrian Muller, Christian
Schader, Florian Leiber and Bernadette Oehen, FiBL, Switzerland; Lindsay K.
Whistance, The Organic Research Centre, UK; and Stephen Roderick, Duchy
College Rural Business School, UK;
Dr Mette Vaarst is a Senior Researcher in the Department of Veterinary and Animal Sciences at Aarhus University, Denmark. She has published extensively on organic animal farming, coordinated several European research projects and co-edited Improving organic animal farming, published by Burleigh Dodds Science Publishing in 2019.
Dr Stephen Roderick is Research Manager in the Rural Business School at Duchy College in the UK. He has published widely on animal health and farm resource management, was formerly Associate Editor of Organic Agriculture and co-edited Improving organic animal farming.
Dr Lindsay Whistance is Senior Livestock Researcher at the Organic Research Centre in the UK. She is internationally known for her research on farm animal behaviour, health, welfare and nutrition in organic agriculture.
