purrtastic@lemmy.nz to Aotearoa / New Zealand@lemmy.nz · 6 months ago'Right in the firing line': New lab-grown milk substitute could threaten NZ's dairy sectorwww.newshub.co.nzexternal-linkmessage-square42fedilinkarrow-up172arrow-down14
arrow-up168arrow-down1external-link'Right in the firing line': New lab-grown milk substitute could threaten NZ's dairy sectorwww.newshub.co.nzpurrtastic@lemmy.nz to Aotearoa / New Zealand@lemmy.nz · 6 months agomessage-square42fedilink
minus-squareHeduplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·edit-26 months agoInteresting. I imagined it’d be similar to how things are run in Switzerland. Cows there are pretty adventurous I suppose.
minus-squareDave@lemmy.nzMlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·6 months agoIsn’t Switzerland the place they keep the cows in a barn and grow the grass separate, then cut and feed the grass to the cows? I think they also have much smaller herd sizes than NZ.
minus-squareHeduplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·6 months agoWhen I visited, I run into cows plenty of times while hiking the mountain trails. I can’t speak with authority, but from what I was told is that there aren’t many big dairy farms, most dairy farmers run small scale farms.
Interesting. I imagined it’d be similar to how things are run in Switzerland. Cows there are pretty adventurous I suppose.
Isn’t Switzerland the place they keep the cows in a barn and grow the grass separate, then cut and feed the grass to the cows?
I think they also have much smaller herd sizes than NZ.
When I visited, I run into cows plenty of times while hiking the mountain trails. I can’t speak with authority, but from what I was told is that there aren’t many big dairy farms, most dairy farmers run small scale farms.