Grazing indicator launched

Qlip laboratory in the Netherlands that deals with quality assurance of dairy products, has developed a new grazing indicator. This indicator uses big data to determine whether milk was produced by cows that graze on pasture. The grazing indicator weights the probability that milk was produced by cows that grazed fresh grass on pasture. “The composition of milk is affected by what a cow eats, making it possible to see whether they were fed fresh grazed grass or other feed such as grass or