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A vision of dairy production in the UK

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 February 2018

C. H. Knight
C. H. Knight*
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Hannah Research Institute, Ayr KA6 5HL , UK
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Abstract

This review considers the likely impact of changing consumer requirements, political pressure, economics and technological advances on the dairy production industry of the future. The vision is one of diverse strategies of production, the majority of milk being produced from cows managed technologically with much greater regard for welfare, with a number of ‘romantic’ strategies such as organic, extensive or dual-purpose production supplying niche markets. The important novel feature of the technological strategy will be an escape from the intensive twelve-month lactation cycle to extended lactations of, say, eighteen months, since this will reduce the number of times the cow is exposed to metabolic and other stresses associated with parturition, peak lactation and rebreeding.

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BSAP Occasional Publication , Volume 28: Integrated management systems for livestock , 2001 , pp. 51 - 57
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Copyright © British Society of Animal Science 2001

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