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> Farmers have always been at the brink of technological progress. You would think we would see more automation and fewer cows being milked by hand were this t
by CloudHelix 6y ago
> Farmers have always been at the brink of technological progress.
You would think we would see more automation and fewer cows being milked by hand were this true.
- huonpine 6y agoYou should do a web search for cow milking technology. Moral milk? DeLaval International, a large Swedish producer of dairy and other farming equipment, is installing 24 robotic voluntary – meaning the cows approach the stations on their own
- jimueller 6y agoDid you have specific areas where there should be more automation? There is a lot of automation in farming.The tractors can drive themselves and planters continuously monitor and correct themselves. What is your definition of milking by hand? I suspect the percentage of cows milked by hand is extremely low. Even small family farms use milking machines.
- LyndsySimon 6y agoI worked on a dairy farm for years. The jobs done by hand are done by hand for a reason.
- gamblor956 6y agoThe primary method of milking cows in the US has been by machine for decades... And most farms in the US are highly automated: automated sprinklers, automated tractors, automated planters, automated harvesters (of crops that are amenable to machine harvesting). It's simply that there are a lot of food crops that are trivial for humans to harvest by hand that would require very expensive machinery and technology to accomplish with a machine.
- bingerman 6y agoThis. The supply of cheap human labor tends to make technological progress slower.
- 9HZZRfNlpR 6y agoThe amount of hand milked product in the western world is miniscule. Probably there is a niche market but eco yuppies for hand milked pasture etc.