Greener pastures: the dairy farmers committed to sustainability

Biological farming, conservation planning and water recycling are part of a concerted push to make the milk industry more ‘carbon confident’It was a soil bacteria course in New Zealand that convinced Reggie Davis to change his farming methods.The fourth-generation Victorian dairy farmer had become increasingly concerned by the costs, chemicals and time involved in the use of nitrate fertilisers to maintain – what was considered to be – high-quality pasture for his dairy h