Objectives

 

Project Objectives:

1. Identify farm level factors contributing to pasture supplementation decisions on organic and comparable conventional dairy grazing farms

2. Evaluate the economic, production, and environmental outcomes of pasture supplementation strategies

3. Develop sustainability indexes to compare within and between organic and conventional grazing dairies

4. Create decision support aids and consult one-to-one with participating farms on research results to assess long-term production, economic, and environmental sustainability

5. Disseminate extension information and evaluate effectiveness of dissemination methods and impacts of changes of supplementation feeding strategies to organic, transition or grazing dairy producers with whole farm planning and risk management to optimize human, land, and capital resources for long-term farm sustainability