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Here's your opportunity to explore a typical British dairy farm. Click on different areas to find out more about them.
Collecting yard
Most dairy cows are milked early in the morning and a second
time in the afternoon. The cows know the routine and often wait for
the farmer by the field gate.
Considering some farmers have hundreds of cows waiting to be
milked, a collecting yard is essential for gathering the cows when
they have been brought in from the field for milking.
Find out how dairy cows are milked.
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We drink around 5 billion litres of milk in Britain each year - the equivalent of 2,000 Olympic-size swimming pools or enough to drink a glass of milk every day for 54 million years.
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