- Location
- Shropshire
We have around 50 head of beef cattle here varying from cows down to calves, all the water to housing, grazing and our domestic properties is metered.There is water user and there is water use, water use stats need considering in their context. In the UK water is generally in excess... cattle consumption of water here is infinitely more sustainable than water used to irrigate other protein sources like pulses and nuts grown in and imported from more arid climates.
Bit back of fag packet maths here but we sell around 10'000kg of actual beef each year never mind anything else which is used from the carcass.
On average we use about one cube of water a day total.
That's 36.5 litres per kg. A far cry from some of the thousands of litres/kg figures you see banded about. Yes I know that doesn't include the rainfall which grows the grass but if we removed the cows the rain wouldn't stop falling.