date:May 14, 2012
its grass-fed production systems.Around 80% of the energy in beef cattle diets and 90% of the energy for sheep diets comes from grass, so we need only a very low level of alternative foodstuffs to supplement a ruminant's diet,she explains.Beef and sheep farming in this country operates using a rain-fed pasture system, which makes the best use of the natural resources we have available.
However, with more than one million tonnes of soy meal imported every year to feed pigs, poultry and dairy