Welcome to our Virtual Dairy Farm

Here you can explore the systems that make up modern dairy farms in the United States. If you wish, you can go deep into the science that makes modern dairy farming efficient, humane, environmentally conscious, and economically sustainable.

150 Cow Farm

This 150-cow farm represents a common scale for facilities in the Great Lakes region. Demands of the marketplace often favor larger scales to achieve profitability. Many dairies like this 150-cow farm combine a host of features showing how the farmstead has evolved and grown over decades while new management practices are adopted.Total GHG emissions for a modeled 150 cow farm are 1.06 kg CO2-eq/kg FPCM (fat and protein corrected milk), which can range between 0.93 to 1.12 kg CO2-eq/kg FPCM based on different management practices adopted on the farm.For more details on the estimated emissions from the modeled 150 cow farm go to LCA fact sheet and for more information on the modeled management practices go to management practices fact sheet.