My idea of a dairy farm comes from local farms and even though I come from a dairy background I really know very little about your tie stall or free stall barns. In fact your dairies are very different from ours. We raise cows and tend fields of grass for them to graze on. We buy all grain and for many years bought all hay we needed. I guess you could say we are more dairy ranchers than dairy farmers because we grow no crops.
Our dairy cows stay out side on green grass year round (summer grass or winter rye) and only come inside for that few minutes it takes to be milked. They are fed grain in the milking parlor so you can see who is eating and who is not. Modern equipment allows the machine to read each cow and feed it based on milk output so high producers get extra grain. The winters are mild and we get our best production then. That is why we shoot for fall calves. In the summer the cows are allowed to lay under trees in the shade to get out of the heat. The closest we get to true confinement is calf hutches.
But I understand keeping milk cows inside when there is snow outside that is measured in feet.
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