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Farm Tour in Holstein Barn

QUICK CANADIAN DAIRY COW FACTS:
- In Canada, most farms use one of three main kinds of milking systems –milking parlour, voluntary milking system or tie stall.
- On each farm, cows are milked two or three times each day.
- It takes about 5-7 minutes to milk one cow.
- Over 98 percent of Canadian dairy farms are family owned and family run.
- There are about 11,280 dairy farms in Canada with an average of 85 milking cows each (about 959,100 cows in total).
- Dairy cows give an average of 29 litres of milk per day.
- Milk has 16 nutrients in it.

Take a virtual tour of a Dairy Farm: https://www.farmfood360.ca/#dairy-tile

Check out this article: How are Dairy Farmers Using Robots in the Barns
https://canadianfoodfocus.org/on-the-farm/how-are-dairy-farmers-using-robots-in-the-barn/
Photo credit: Farm & Food Care SK

From Dairy Cattle