Automated cow milking ring - GIF

**meyer77** · Oct 6, 2023, 05:08 AM

A friend of mine's son in law has a dairy farm in Indiana. They have 10,000 milk cows, about 100 calves a week are born and they produce a lot of power from methane, from the manure. Each cow has a chip in their ear and when done being milked a record of how much and what time is recorded.
They have a milking ring like shown above.

**Frank S** · Oct 6, 2023, 09:23 AM

Originally Posted by meyer77

A friend of mine's son in law has a dairy farm in Indiana. They have 10,000 milk cows, about 100 calves a week are born and they produce a lot of power from methane, from the manure. Each cow has a chip in their ear and when done being milked a record of how much and what time is recorded.
They have a milking ring like shown above.

I doubt that there are many small dairy farms left any more like the 50 to 250 cow farms I was used to seeing around where I grew up. Back then kids could make a decent enough wage to help out with family expenses. Lots of hard work but sure taught them a better work ethic, than a sacker at the grocery store.