PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Dairy Farming (27 November 2017)
Question Asked
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if his Department will take steps to end zero-grazing in dairy cows.
Asked by:
Kerry McCarthy (Labour)
Asked by:
Kerry McCarthy (Labour)
Answer
Good stockmanship is the key to high animal welfare and different methods of production have relative strengths and weaknesses. However I have held meetings with the Pasture Fed Livestock Association and we are giving consideration as to how we might support and encourage pasture-fed based systems in future agriculture policy.
Answered by:
George Eustice (Conservative)
6 December 2017
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