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Title: UNH Regional Organic Dairy Farm


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UNH Regional Organic Dairy Farm
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UNHs Regional Organic Dairy Farm
  • Organic Dairy Research and Teaching
  • Hands-on Student involvement
  • Typical New England Size
  • First Land Grant Organic dairy
  • Education, not lobbying

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The Machinery
4
Organic Dairy Goals
  • Research and education
  • Transition herd to Organic
  • Pasture-based herd
  • Collaborative Research
  • New student opportunities
  • Options for stakeholders
  • Factual data
  • New regional AES project

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Our First Delivery
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Where are we now?
  • 250 acres certified organic
  • First organic feed harvested
  • 48 Holsteins in transition
  • 20 person advisory committee
  • 827K joint research grant (UM, UNH, ARS, MOMP)
  • 250K commitments

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Some of the Players
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What do we need
  • New Hoop barn
  • New milking parlor
  • New well and fencing
  • To be student-ready
  • Collaborations in research
  • About 1 million
  • Finish construction prior to calving/milking

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The interest is there
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Our Students
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Our Future
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Our Thanks
  • Stonyfield Farm
  • National Jersey Assoc.
  • Regional Dairy Farmers donated animals
  • Hubbard, LLC
  • Individual gifts
  • Grant efforts
  • UNH faculty

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Into an Organic Dairy Sunset
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