Cows enter world’s first floating farm

14-05-2019 | |
Cows enter world s first floating farm. Photo: Chris McCullough
Cows enter world s first floating farm. Photo: Chris McCullough
History has been made as 32 cows have just entered the word’s first floating dairy farm based in the port at Rotterdam in the Netherlands. Years of development and construction have finally come to the last hurdle when the Montbelliarde cows can find their sea legs and get accustomed to their new home. And what a luxury home it is, with robotic milking, a slurry robot, spacious cubicles, automatic belt feeder and a rubber walkway. A nearby field offers the cows a place for some green exercise


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