The main objective of the project is to evaluate the environmental and economic sustainability of a number of innovative management practices on intensive dairy cattle farms. These include, for example, the use of cow-calf nurseries for calf suckling, longer lactation duration, increased longevity with a consequent reduction in the calving rate, the use of semen from beef breeds, separate rearing of calves, access to pasture for heifers and dry cows. A further objective is to identify consumer preferences in terms of new management practices in animal husbandry and the priority scale that guides the purchase choices of sustainable dairy products through the administration of a questionnaire.
The following activities will be carried out in the course of the project: analysis of consumer perception of sustainable farm management practices; identification of dairy farmers already practising some of the management modalities outlined in the objectives; collection of information and data from these farms; application and monitoring of some of these practices at the two GO farms; in-depth assessments of the economic and environmental sustainability of milk production of these farms to assess the strengths and weaknesses of this practice; dissemination of the results to the scientific world, breeders, the community
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