Posted by MarkB_MI on May 06, 2018 at 07:00:19 from (174.230.16.146):
My wife and I recently finished a trip to Portugal, including the Azores and Madeira. I was fascinated by the Azorean dairy industry. Although the Azores comprise only three percent of the land area of Portugal, they produce a whopping 30 percent of Portugal's milk. This figure is even more astounding when you consider that the Azores are 850 miles west of the Portuguese mainland.
Now for the really interesting part: During our entire stay on the island of Sao Miguel, I did not see a single American-style dairy barn. In fact the closest thing to an actual milk parlor we saw was the shed in the picture below. Dairy cattle are kept on small pastures of around five to ten acres, and the farmer brings his milking machines to the pasture in trailers like the one in the picture. He then hauls the milk to a local collection facility or directly to a nearby processing plant.
Most of the pastures are impossibly steep. That's the Atlantic Ocean in the background, several hundred feet below.
Since the pastures are small, it's necessary to move the cows regularly. There aren't a lot of roads, so it's common to see cattle herded on major highways as you see in the second picture.
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