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- - - - Areas has mild climate with 1900 sunshine hours per year, 1500mm of rainfall, average temp of 16 degrees Celsius
      - Light ash soils originating from Taupo erupting allow fertility
  - - - cows rotated around paddocks regularly in order to allow grass to grow back
      - Can take as little as 18 days to do a rotation, around every paddock, or up to 100 days
    - - Cows quickly learn where to go and when, and line up along the platform
      - four cups on the milking machine use a pulsating vacuum to draw the milk down
        
        power provided by a vacuum pump, which pumps the ilk into a central collecting vessel known as the milking can
        
        From here the milk is stored and cooled, until it is collected by a tanker once a day
        
        takes 2 hours to milk cows, each cow produces 10 liters per day, 7000 liters produced when cows are milked twice a day.
  - - - Planting along waterways now common in farming to stop erosion and catch effluent before it washes into waterways
    - - Useful as it allows less money to be spent on chemical fertilizers and provides a use for the waste
      - If the effluent drains into rivers and streams, algae grows excessively due to the nutrients, an then sucks all the oxygen out of the river and kills the fish
- - - - 1882, first refrigerated butter left for Britain
        
        1884 cream separators and In the 1880s mechanical milking machines
  - - - 126 hectares
      - milks 351 cows
      - produced 1.29 million liters of milk that year
- - - - profits
      - recycled cow waste, effluent