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Milk Goes Green: Todays Dairy Farms Use Less Land, Feed . . . Improved efficiency has enabled the U S dairy industry to produce 186 billion pounds of milk from 9 2 million cows in 2007, compared to only 117 billion pounds of milk from 25 6 million cows in 1944
Todays dairy farms use less land, feed and water | Cornell . . . The study, "The Environmental Impact of Dairy Production: 1944 compared with 2007," reports that the improved efficiency has enabled the U S dairy industry to produce 186 billion pounds of milk from 9 2 million cows in 2007, compared with only 117 billion pounds of milk from 25 6 million cows in 1944
The Environmental Impact Of Dairy Production - Faunalytics The 2007 herd produced 59% more milk from 64% fewer cows, reducing the carbon footprint per gallon of milk by 63% Contemporary dairy systems require fewer resources than dairy systems did in 1944 To produce one billion kilograms of milk in 2007 required 21% of the animals, 23% of the feedstuffs, 35% of the water, and 10% of the land used in 1944
Environmental assessment of United States dairy farms The number of dairy cows in the U S in 2019 was estimated to be 9 35 million producing 99,056 Gg of milk (NASS, 2020) Based upon these numbers, our farm simulations give a total annual feed consumption for the U S dairy herd, including replacement heifers, of 91,400 Gg DM
Milk v. Wildlife: The Environmental Cost of Dairy Dairy is big business in the United States: In 2015, 9,317,000 U S dairy cows produced more than 208 billion pounds of milk 1 Americans consume more processed dairy products, such as cheese and yogurt, than ever before Per capita cheese availability has more than doubled since the 1970s, and Americans now eat 36 pounds of cheese every year, in addition to 22 8 pounds of frozen dairy desserts
New Mexico Dairy Facts 07-15 • That in 1944 we produced 117 billion lbs of milk with 25 6 billion cows, while today we produce 186 billion lbs with 9 2 million cows, due to increased efficiency per cow (Capper et al 2008)?
Invited review: Sustainability of the US dairy industry Over the past century, the US dairy industry has realized tremendous improvements in efficiencies of production (Martin and Mitra, 2001), achieved in part by investing in technology and productive assets, and paid for by economies of scale The intensification of the industry is such that farms with more than 500 milking cows now account for 63% of the milk supply in the United States (USDA