Compassion in dairy farming by Patrick Holden on 8 March, 2019 in Patrick’s Blog.
Because I am an organic dairy farmer and I am aware that more and more people are questioning the ethics of dairy farming, I thought it might be appropriate to share my perspective on why I still feel, after 45 years of milking cows, that it is possible to develop and maintain a relatively harmonious relationship with dairy cows.
We farm in West Wales, near Lampeter; here is our story.