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Old 04-26-2012, 04:28 PM   #36
lungs
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Join Date: May 2002
Location: Prairie du Sac, WI
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Originally Posted by Fidatelo View Post
Do you have the cool machines where the cows just walk up when they feel like getting milked and it drains them automagically? We have an 'Open Farm Day' here once a year and I took the kids to a dairy farm last year and saw one of those, it was awesome.

Nope.... Those things are pretty damn expensive. Close to $1 million per robot and each robot can handle like 60-70 cows so the investment on my part would be absolutely astronomical.

Those rich Canadian farmers have all the fanciest equipment. No joke either. The quota system makes life very comfortable for the Canadian farmer. It's hard for any young person to put together the capital required to buy any quota though.
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