@purrtastic to Aotearoa / New Zealand • 2 months ago'Right in the firing line': New lab-grown milk substitute could threaten NZ's dairy sectorwww.newshub.co.nzmessage-square42arrow-up172arrow-down14cross-posted to: [email protected]
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minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish2•edit-22 months agoInteresting. I imagined it’d be similar to how things are run in Switzerland. Cows there are pretty adventurous I suppose.
minus-square@DaveMAlink1•2 months agoIsn’t Switzerland the place they keep the cows in a barn and grow the grass separate, then cut and feed the grass to the cows? I think they also have much smaller herd sizes than NZ.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish2•2 months agoWhen I visited, I run into cows plenty of times while hiking the mountain trails. I can’t speak with authority, but from what I was told is that there aren’t many big dairy farms, most dairy farmers run small scale farms.
Interesting. I imagined it’d be similar to how things are run in Switzerland. Cows there are pretty adventurous I suppose.
Isn’t Switzerland the place they keep the cows in a barn and grow the grass separate, then cut and feed the grass to the cows?
I think they also have much smaller herd sizes than NZ.
When I visited, I run into cows plenty of times while hiking the mountain trails. I can’t speak with authority, but from what I was told is that there aren’t many big dairy farms, most dairy farmers run small scale farms.