Pennsylvania switch-to-grazing project aims to save farmers, land and Chesapeake Bay.

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'Can a new organic milk line that relies on grazing, animal welfare, healthier cows, well-paid farmers and conservation practices help save both the Chesapeake Bay and struggling dairy farmers in Pennsylvania?

The multi-partner experiment known as the Dairy Grazing Project has launched in Lancaster, Lebanon, York and Dauphin counties. This area is a target of Pennsylvania’s efforts to reduce agriculture-related nutrient pollution that not only fouls local streams but flows downstream to the Bay.

Funded in part by a three-year, $1 million grant from the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation, a coalition of eight nonprofits and private companies aims to persuade about 54 small dairies to switch to rotational grazing and a steady diet of grass for their cows.

By doing so, they hope to convert 6,000 acres of crop fields to pastures and plant perennial hay for winter cattle forage on another 4,000 acres that are currently dedicated to grain crops, which are prone to spawning polluted runoff.'>>>

https://www.bayjournal.com/news/pollution/pennsylvania-switch-to-grazing-project-aims-to-save-farmers-land-and-chesapeake-bay/article_30eab316-e1b4-11ec-9cfd-433c82ee5b90.html?

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1. The problem with the plan ---- milk consumption has decreased to the point that

several of the milk processors have gone out of business and the remaining large ones will not buy milk from Pennsylvania.