Isn it better to graze cattle on grass pastures?
That may be a good way to feed some cattle, but it doesn’t address the wastes that all cattle produce in large quantities, or the demands of feeding America’s 300 million people. “Sustainability” may conjure up a picture of pastoral tranquility –a small number of dairy or beef cattle quietly grazing in a pasture with a red barn in the background. Unfortunately, there are two problems with this picture. The first is that it isn’t capable of actually feeding large numbers of people at a price they can afford. Being economically viable is an essential part of being sustainable. Second, despite their benign appearance, the reality of cattle and dairy cows in pasture is that environmental impacts from each animal are significantly greater than that of an animal housed in a treatment system like Bion planned sustainable cattle facility in Oswego. Source: The American Society of Agricultural Engineers (ASAE), considered to be the definitive source for information on production livestock manu
