This trip is a result of being awarded a Nuffield scholarship

This trip is a result of  being awarded a Nuffield scholarship
There are 1300 scholars world wide who are expected to share their knowledge with fellow farmers and the wider industry

The family

The family

Sunday, March 27, 2011

Mexican Dairy farm




I was really lucky as I had a chance oportunity to visit a Mexican Dairy. It was a small family operation. I jumped a fence and introduced myself to the fellow. Who spoke a little English and I stayed whilsst he and three others milked 36 cows in a small dairy (I'll try to upload a photo) They tiped the milk into buckets and then walked it into the the milk room and tipped it into the vat. He said next year they aimed to be able to afford to pump it to the milk room. For those of you who are not dairy farmers this is pretty tough. Its great to see the extremes of agriculture around. There is big operations with pretty impressive systems right through to basic operations. We drove for 3 hours through Mexico before flying out, which gave us a great oportunity to see a lot of the desert areas that were not irrigated. They we flew to LA. From the plane it was amazing to see the vast wind swept sand/dune/dessert areas then there would be mountain ranges and out of the desert would suddently appear green circles and quares where centre pivots and irrigation channels watered crops.  Now we are in California. Today we took some time out to look at the Yoesmite National Park.

1 comment:

  1. Is it me or does that dairy farmer look like Rolf Harris??
    By the look of it, he took a shine to you Roma!!

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