My Austrian relatives here run a thriving family business. As well as the dairy farm, they supply a range of fine dairy products, meats, and breads. They work very hard, and in Austria (unlike so often in Australia) hard-working dairy farmers can be well rewarded. They have a good life.
We watched the evening milking session, and then admired the certificates of merit on the wall of the milking shed. Lauda, Liza, Lotte, and Lady, among others, had done themselves proud, with lifetime milk production of up to 80,000kg. I checked, and this is considerably more than a typical worldwide average. They haven't yet reached the 216,891kg produced by a cow named Smurf, in Ontario, Canada, up until 2012,but maybe they'll get there yet.
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