smstonypoint
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- SC (Upstate) & NC (Piedmont)
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- NH TN 55, Kubota B2320 & RTV 900, Bad Boy Outlaw ZTR
See The Dizzying Grandeur of 21st-Century Agriculture - The New York Times for some amazing photos and video of commercial agriculture.
Here's an example from Greenleaf, Wisconsin -- "Newborn females arrive from local dairies and spend their first 180 days at Calf Source -- first in one of 4,896 hutches, like the ones seen here, and then in larger group pens. Trucks pass down each of 72 rows, dispensing water and milk. After a transfer to Heifer Source, another facility owned by the Milk Source company, the cows are inseminated and then returned -- seven months pregnant, and just under 2 years old -- to the dairies they came from."
Steve
Here's an example from Greenleaf, Wisconsin -- "Newborn females arrive from local dairies and spend their first 180 days at Calf Source -- first in one of 4,896 hutches, like the ones seen here, and then in larger group pens. Trucks pass down each of 72 rows, dispensing water and milk. After a transfer to Heifer Source, another facility owned by the Milk Source company, the cows are inseminated and then returned -- seven months pregnant, and just under 2 years old -- to the dairies they came from."
Steve