[mab]

Heard on the radio today that the plans for a super dairy in Lincs have been dropped - due to objections    . Lets hope it's for good!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-lincolnshire-12485392

mab

[Hilarysmum]

WONDERFUL

[morri2]

Brilliant!!   This is NOT the way forward in farming - quite the opposite in fact.

Was this the one featured on Countryfile a few weeks ago? 

[sabrina]

Delighted to hear this but no doubt it will appear again in the future. 

[Rosemary]

I'm glad it's been dropped but it's already here.

Last year, working for RHET, I visited a few dairy farms. It wasn't unusual for the cows never to be at grass while in milk; some, but not all, were turned out during their dry period, but that depended on season, type of land etc. The highest yielding cows CANNOT survive on grass - they are genetically programmed to produce so much milk that they would, literally, milk themselves to death, so on most dairy farms the high yielders at peak lactation will be kept in.

So don't kid yourself that factory dairy farming has been averted - it hasn't. But if the consumer wants to buy 8 pints of milk for £2, that's the way it will be.

[Hilarysmum]

We are so lucky here, we can buy milk direct from the farm from free range cows who eat grass at the same price as the supermarket milk.