Philosophy

Initial position

• Worldwide climate change influences the production of food- and agricultural commodities
• Dairy and beef production based on concentrated feed competes human nutrition -> “feed no food”
• Use the available resources (grassland) in a sustainable way
• The prevalent breed black-Holstein is an extreme dairy breed with a high need for concentrates
• Low milk prices

Objective

• Production suitable to habitat (with roughage feed)
• Sustainable development of the Baltic cattle breeding
• Use of robust breeds with a lower milk yield but the benefit of lower production costs
  (lower veterinary costs, no concentrates, more calves per cow)