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get a milkingroboter then. even our fucking tiny farms, compared to america, in austria buy them more and more. xD
Yeah my dad had automated dairy farm, the cows walked themselves in and basically milked themselves. This was in freaking late 80's early 90's. You telling me they still milking by hand in Vermont in 2025?
It was cheaper exploiting illegals.
Yeah I remember it cost my dad 500,000 in the 80's to build. Who knows what the cost today would be.
145 000 to 175 000 € but thats for a small one with 1 milkingstall, or rather tiny if we compare american farms and austria xD (most farms with a milkingrobit have about 40-80 cows)
My dad had over 2500 cows
i never read about usa farm but saw like 2 documentaries, i assumed you had like 500 :O
No we had twenty five hundred cows. 2,500.
Wow, that's almost 2670 cows!
Two and a half cows doesn't sound like that much.
But what do you need millicow precision for?
And a farmer in the US would probably have to import it from more innovative countries which had to invent those machines because they had no slaves to exploit.