Being a dairy farmer

Dairy Farmer

WALT: use the text to locate information about dairy farming

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1. How does the farmer know the cows are keen to be milked?

  when it is august spring that’s  when they feel uncomfortable when there’s too much milk

2. What do the farmers use as transport around the farm?

   by moving them around

3. What product do you get from a dairy farm?

   milk meat mince medicine

4. What is a cow-pat? (you may need to look this up)

   just like poo

5. Why do the farmers wear big aprons and boots to cover them?

   so poo don’t go on them well at the back of a cow

6. What is the difference between milking now and milking in the olden days?

   they use their hands to get the milk olden days)(They use machine that sucks their milk out)

7. How much milk does a cow give in one day?

   19,825 pounds

8. Why do you think the milk goes into a cooler/

   so the milk can not be sloby

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9. You are going to think about the job of being a dairy farmer and use a PMI chart to organise and show your thinking.