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October 25, 2016

Milking cows the modern way at mega-dairies

By GEORGE PLAVEN
East Oregonian

PENDLETON, Ore. (AP) — The milking parlor at Columbia River Dairy is a large, warehouse-like building where cows arrive twice a day to be milked by modern machinery.

First, the animals are loaded onto slowly rotating carousels where their udders are sprayed with a disinfectant and attached to automatic pumps. Each spin lasts just a few minutes before the cows are unloaded back where they started. The process is smooth, continuous and efficient.


 
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