The Dizzying Grandeur of 21st-Century Agriculture

[smstonypoint]

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

 

[Wagtail]

Ta, Steve.

 

[2LaneCruzer]

Interesting array of pictures Steve, but as you well know, there are a lot of issues concerning corporate farming and their methods. We have a referendum on the ballot in Oklahoma this time known as the "Right to Farm". I intend to vote against it.

 

[bigtiller]

A house to yourself and delivery food. Pretty nice life for a heifer.