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How dairy robots are changing work for cows and farmers

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225 points DonHopkins | 1 comments | 15 Apr 25 22:26 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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djoldman ◴[15 Apr 25 23:14 UTC] No.43699544[source]▶
> And of course there’s manure. A dairy cow produces an average of 68 kilograms of manure a day. All that manure has to be collected and the barn floors regularly cleaned.

Ok that's a stat I didn't expect. 68kg! That's ~150lbs! Holy crap.

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1. pests ◴[16 Apr 25 05:09 UTC] No.43701704[source]▶
I sometimes watch a concrete YouTuber. He recently did a manure pump pit. I honestly didn't realize the scale of manure management. A massive holding tank for all the produced waste. All the areas with cows will have ways of pushing and moving that manure out into trenches and eventually into a massive pit. The pump pit was so they could get to the lowest point and pump the product into its next stage of processing / use. Its a valuable byproduct so worth dealing with but just never thought about what goes in must come out, and cows eat a lot.