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The University of Vermont Extension’s “Across the Fence” program features the Dairy Soil & Water Regeneration research happening on farms in Vermont. Water quality is a unique focus of the work in the state. WATCH VIDEO https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ys3nVtFcrEI
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The Dairy Soil & Water Regeneration project is breaking new ground by pursuing measurement-based assessments of dairy’s GHG footprint for feed production and also testing the limits of technology and pushing the science forward. READ ARTICLE https://acsess.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/crso.20319
DSWR project leaders visited Kinnard Farms, a dairy in northeastern Wisconsin, to discuss research happening there. The farm is one of six commercial dairies around the country participating in extensive research trials. During the August 2023 visit, the team and the farm’s owner, Lee Kinnard, reviewed soil health and carbon data from an experiment at… Read more »
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Noblehurst Farms, a multi-family dairy co-owned by Rob Noble, an alum of Cornell University, is helping shift the dairy industry toward greenhouse gas neutrality through an on-farm research partnership with the university. READ ARTICLE https://dairybusiness.com/alum-partners-with-cals-through-us-dairys-net-zero-initiative/ Photo: courtesy of Dairy Business
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More and more dairy farmers are implementing climate-smart practices, but there is something largely missing — data. Dairy Soil & Water Regeneration, a six-year project involving research across the county, is changing that. READ ARTICLE https://acsess.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/crso.20294 Photo caption: Team conducting training on the SATURO instrument used for measuring water infiltration and permeability, one of the… Read more »
The Dairy Soil & Water Regeneration project is very much a hands-on endeavor. Members of the research teams in Wisconsin along with those from the Soil Health Institute and private agronomists came together in April at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Arlington Research Station to learn how to use one of the key instruments in the… Read more »
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The Dairy Stream podcast talked with Mara Cloutier of the Soil Health Institute, and Lee Kinnard, a dairy farmer in Casco, Wis., about how soil health practices are practical on all sizes of dairies. PODCAST https://dairystream.podbean.com/e/national-scale-project-examines-dairy-s-greenhouse-gas-footprint/