World Dairy Diary recently caught up with Dr. Jude Capper, a livestock carbon footprint expert at Washington State University, at the AG CONNECT Expo in Atlanta. In the interview, Dr. Capper discussed the changes the dairy industry has seen over the past 70 years:
“Compared to 1944, now we have bigger cows, they eat more feed, but they also give more milk, so milk yield per cow has increase four fold since 1944,” she explains. “We’ve cut cow numbers by 60 percent, but we also make 59 percent more milk, so that cut the total carbon footprint per gallon of milk, which is huge.”
Listen in to the entire interview on the World Dairy Diary site.
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