Markets must be grown if organic is to be viable

The first essential for successfully changing to organic dairy farming is that farmers are already efficient non-organic farmers, and that they can grow and manage clover swards successfully.

Unfortunately, some of the people who went into organic dairying did so because they were not very successful at non-organic dairying. Others changed because they strongly believed in the concept of organic production.

Organic dairy production is much more expensive than ordinary dairying and a decent premium is required for it to be profitable.