Today, many breeders suffer from the devaluation of their status. So maybe if we want to restore value to milk producers, you have to start by returning your letters of nobility to the dairy cow. Understand its necessity in our agricultural system and enhance its multiple facets.
The dairy cow is not only a producer of milk and meat. It participates in our economy by generating income for a large number of professionals, ranging from the veterinarian to the federal official. It promotes decentralized occupation of the territory. It values our non -labourable lands by consuming grasslands which it then goes, by rumination, transforming into calories assimilated by humans, in the form of milk and meat.
By grazing, it fights against burst, mainly in the mountains, which limits the risk of forest fires. It consumes and values many by-products of our diet and thus participates in our relative food security. It produces farm fertilizers, necessary for fertilization and maintaining the quality of our floors, and its excrement makes it possible to produce renewable energy. In addition, permanent meadows, necessary for its diet, are real carbon wells.
Thanks to its multiple functions, and as far as its breeding remains on a human scale, the dairy cow is part of a virtuous circle, necessary for resilient and diversified agriculture. The production of milk and meat, if based on grasslands not assimilated by the human being, enters a lasting cycle, valuing renewable resources. The dairy cow still has its place in our agricultural system and it is high time to give it back its letters of nobility!
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