March 11th, 2010 by Caroline Stocks
Another interesting day, this time at the Pennsylvania farm centre for a conference. Most of the speakers talked about US farm policy and the States’ perspective on food production. It was good to see that despite what we might think in Europe, they are taking serious steps to cut emissions and produce food more sustainably. [...]
March 10th, 2010 by Caroline Stocks
After almost a week of meetings it was great to get out on-farm today. We drove into Pennsylvania to look at a high-tech, robotic milking system. It was an impressive setup – 2400 cattle milking more than 27m litres of milk a year. While hygiene and welfare were obviously impeccable, it did make me feel [...]