Dairy Farming in the Wet Tropics
Farming Anna Bowen Farming Anna Bowen

Dairy Farming in the Wet Tropics

The phrase “Australian agriculture” brings certain scenes to mind; merino sheep and vast beef stations, helicopter wrangling, the brush of a shirt cuff, stained with red dust, across a sweating forehead. When dairy cattle are imagined it is in the temperate grasslands of Victoria and Tasmania; a British family farm interrupted with kangaroos and gum trees.

Few people outside of the industry realise that north of the tropic of Capricorn cows graze tropical grasses five feet high, farmers battle against the ceaseless encroachment of the rainforest, and milk is produced to the chorus of rainbow hued birds, under the beat of the fierce southern sun, and the battering rains of the wet season.

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Cow Calf Contact: Dairy’s Ethical Future?
Nuffield Anna Bowen Nuffield Anna Bowen

Cow Calf Contact: Dairy’s Ethical Future?

After three years of travelling and research my Nuffield report is now available to read!

It covers:

  • The feasibility of cow calf contact dairying in a commercial UK setting

  • Management of CCC

  • A basic cost model for CCC

  • The social licence lessons dairy can learn from horse racing

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