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Summary
Providing appropriate, healthy indoor and outdoor living conditions is required by National Organic Program Standards and is fundamental to maintaining a profitable, thriving livestock operation. Organic rules require access to the outdoors for all livestock and access to pasture for ruminants. If you have cows, sheep or goats, developing expert pasture-management skills will be critical to your organic success.
Organic poultry and pig management are dynamic sectors with many recent innovations based on new and appropriate technology, such as hoophouses, lightweight electric fencing and movable hutches or creepers. Consult the resources at the end of this module or contact other growers in your area for more details on building or modifying these systems.
If you’re ready, take some time now to visit your Organic Livestock Plan and fill out the sections relating to livestock living conditions. In the last lesson of this module, we’ll cover basic organic handling and processing regulations as they apply to animal products.
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