The Ahimsa Dairy Foundation selects research and development topics based on their relevance to the Foundation’s charitable purposes and their potential to deliver a clear public benefit, in line with the Charities Act 2011. In practice, topics are identified through a combination of operational experience, emerging challenges in ethical dairy farming, and opportunities to contribute to wider knowledge in animal welfare and sustainable agriculture. Priority is given to areas where there is a clear gap…

A groundbreaking achievement for the Ahimsa team of both oxen and ox-trainers. With the help of John Turner – engineer extraordinaire at the farm in Little Bytham, we recently ran the first trial of our new capstan. A capstan is a broad revolving cylinder with a vertical axis used for winding a rope or cable, powered by a motor or pushed round by draft animals. When animal power was the primary source of farm power…

Ilan Adler, Director of Economad, has selected Ahimsa as a Partner to conduct a study of the viability of a unique, small-scale, modular on-farm anaerobic digestion (AD) system solution where excrement / dung from our cows can be utilised to produce biogas which in turn can be utilised directly for heating water on our farm operations or producing energy which can run a generator. From testing a smaller version over the last eighteen months, they…