Two climate change research projects, essential to helping the British dairy farming sector move forward, have already been commissioned by DairyCo.

The recent UK IDF conference, sponsored by DairyCo and attended by 250 dairy farmers, industry specialists and stakeholders from 40 countries, identified the need for the dairy industry to increase its understanding of climate change and to begin the process of defining its problems and finding solutions that could improve the situation.
The new projects ‘A desktop review of greenhouse gas emissions’ and ‘Modelling greenhouse gas emissions’ will help the industry in various ways. The Desktop project aims to find out how individual production systems