A BusinessWeek reporter visited the World Dairy Expo in Madison, Wisconsin last week and came back with the interesting story of this completely automatic robotic milking machine. One of the most impressive things I’ve seen at the expo has been Lely’s Astronaut A4, the Dutch company’s latest-generation robotic milking machine. I am not being sarcastic […]
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British farmers are aiming to milk profits and boost productivity with this latest agricultural machine – a car wash for cows. The industrial-sized device features a huge swinging “cow brush” similar to those used to clean vehicles and lorries. It is fixed inside a barn and herds of cows can pass through and receive a
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Ethiopia has in my mind always been a country of famine. But that could be changing. What would East Africa look like if Ethopia became the breadbasket of the region? But what if, despite the poor rainfall, Ethiopia stopped importing thousands of tons of foodstuff and attempted to reverse the trend? What if Ethiopia actually
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A BusinessWeek reporter visited the World Dairy Expo in Madison, Wisconsin last week and came back with the interesting story of this completely automatic robotic milking machine. One of the most impressive things I’ve seen at the expo has been Lely’s Astronaut A4, the Dutch company’s latest-generation robotic milking machine. I am not being sarcastic
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A herd of dairy farmers were having dinner one evening when someone wondered aloud if there wasn’t something that they could do with all of the bovine excrement. In jest, someone else asked, “Can’t you guys make a flowerpot or something with the stuff?” Those were fateful words for brothers Ben and Matthew Freund, second-generation
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