The main hypotheses were that a transition to high forage and non-food diets will enhance a) product quality, b) animal health and welfare, c) resource-use efficiency and d) consumer acceptability, by matching appropriate diets, breeds and production systems. The project focused on dairy, i ntegrated dairy and beef and specialized beef production systems. The SusCatt project aimed to evaluate the productivity, resource-use efficiency and consumers’ acceptability of a transition to high forage and pasture diets for European cattle. The sustainability of the intensive European cattle milk and meat production is questioned due to environmental and animal welfare trade-offs and growing reliance on edible food and imported feed. Sweden: RISE Research Institutes of Sweden and Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences.Poland: Istytut Genetyki i Hodowli Zwierzat PAN Jastrzebiec.Germany: Institute of Crop Science and Plant Breeding, Kiel University.Norway: The Norwegian Institute of Bioeconomy Research (NIBIO).Project collaborators: Håvard Steinshamn, Gillian Butler, Hannah Davis.Funder: DEFRA as part of the ERA-NET Cofund SusAn.Topic: Increasing productivity, resource efficiency and product quality to increase the economic competitiveness of forage and grazing based cattle production systems
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