Dairy

This project activity will co-develop and study BMPs that have the potential to increase carbon sequestration and mitigate greenhouse gas emissions.

British Columbia’s average dairy herd size is approximately 140 cows. Most of BC’s dairy herds are in the Lower Mainland, southeastern Vancouver Island, and the Okanagan-Shuswap Area. Each year in BC, 470 dairy farms produce over 850M litres (or about 350 Olympic sized swimming pools) of milk. Approximately half of milk production is utilized for fluid milk sales, while the other half is allocated to non-fluid industrial dairy product sales.

Includes: Dairy

Who is Involved?

• BC Dairy Association

What Practices are Being Developed & Researched?

• Cover and relay cropping
• Lower emissions manure spreading
• Refined nutrient budgeting

Resources

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  Choosing soil health measurements for large scale adoptionMay 5, 2023
  This is a recording from the BC Living Lab and the BC Agricultural Climate Action Research Network’s Agricultural Research Data Protocol Workshop that took place from February 23 to 24, 2023. This workshop was funded in part by the BC Living Lab and in part by the government of British Columbia’s CleanBC initiative. Funding for… Read more: Choosing soil health measurements for large scale adoption
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  Regenerative soils technical working group draft recommendationsMay 5, 2023
  This is a recording from the BC Living Lab and the BC Agricultural Climate Action Research Network’s Agricultural Research Data Protocol Workshop that took place from February 23 to 24, 2023. This workshop was funded in part by the BC Living Lab and in part by the government of British Columbia’s CleanBC initiative. Funding for… Read more: Regenerative soils technical working group draft recommendations
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  Challenges of scaling soil carbon data over space and timeMay 5, 2023
  This is a recording from the BC Living Lab and the BC Agricultural Climate Action Research Network’s Agricultural Research Data Protocol Workshop that took place from February 23 to 24, 2023. This workshop was funded in part by the BC Living Lab and in part by the government of British Columbia’s CleanBC initiative. Funding for… Read more: Challenges of scaling soil carbon data over space and time
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  Nutrient budgeting and farmgate and soil budget measurement methodsMay 5, 2023
  This is a recording from the BC Living Lab and the BC Agricultural Climate Action Research Network’s Agricultural Research Data Protocol Workshop that took place from February 23 to 24, 2023. This workshop was funded in part by the BC Living Lab and in part by the government of British Columbia’s CleanBC initiative. Funding for… Read more: Nutrient budgeting and farmgate and soil budget measurement methods
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  Soil microbiology analysis optionsMay 4, 2023
  This is a recording from the BC Living Lab and the BC Agricultural Climate Action Research Network’s Agricultural Research Data Protocol Workshop that took place from February 23 to 24, 2023. This workshop was funded in part by the BC Living Lab and in part by the government of British Columbia’s CleanBC initiative. Funding for… Read more: Soil microbiology analysis options
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  Economics and adoption in the BC Living LabMay 4, 2023
  This is a recording from the BC Living Lab and the BC Agricultural Climate Action Research Network’s Agricultural Research Data Protocol Workshop that took place from February 23 to 24, 2023. This workshop was funded in part by the BC Living Lab and in part by the government of British Columbia’s CleanBC initiative. Funding for… Read more: Economics and adoption in the BC Living Lab