On 11/20/2020 8:10 AM, Ed Pawlowski wrote:
> There were some numbers mentioned here about milk production. Right now
> I'm watching a PBS series called Power Trip: The Story of Energy and
> this segment is about food.
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> They are showing a dairy farm and how the cows are fed a special diet.
> Holsteins is the breed with the best milk production and with the right
> diet can produce 25,000 pounds a year, or about 8 gallons a day.
> gallon of milk is 8.6 pounds.
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> The same cows in India he said produce only 1000 pounds of milk a year.
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> Of course, in a leap year they produce 25,068 pounds.
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> The cows are fed cotton seeds and almond husks in the mix since they
> have a lot of protein and would otherwise be waste.
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Milk is one thing. Butterfat and milk solids differ between breeds, and
feeds. And from time to time, the market prefers one over the other,
and prices for each swing.