the.com/dairy farm
A factory where grass gets laundered into milk, 70 pounds a day per cow.
means A farm where cows are raised and milked, and the milk is processed or prepared for sale.
from 'Dairy' traces back to Middle English 'deye' meaning a female servant who made butter and cheese, combined with '-ery' (a place where something is done). 'Farm' comes from Latin 'firma,' a fixed payment — it originally meant land leased at a fixed rent, long before it meant land you worked. So a dairy farm is literally a word-fossil of leased ground plus the dairymaid's workshop, fused centuries later into one term for milk production at scale.
- daily output
- average cow makes 6 to 7 gallons of milk daily
- milking schedule
- most cows milked two to three times every day
- gestation requirement
- cows must calve yearly to keep producing milk
- us scale
- fewer than 25000 dairy farms remain in america