Missouri farmers switch to grass to lift profit

摘要

AGROUP of Missouri, United States, dairyfarmers has switched to feeding dairy cows more grass and less grain as amore sustainable system that can better cope with fluctuating milk prices. The idea of dairyfarming based on grazing was slow to spread in Missouri. The University of Missouri (MU) held the first "grazing schools" in the early 1970s. MU researchers started a pasture-based dairy at the MU Southwest Center, Mt Vernon, Missouri, in 1999.