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unusual facts about Dairy farming



Hatton, Derbyshire

Local employers include Nestlé who have a historical presence in the village due to the surrounding farmland, which supported a strong dairy farming industry, and proximity to rail transport.

Herbert Thomas Johnson

He was educated in local schools, graduated from Bradford Academy, and became a dairy farmer and cattle breeder as the owner of Bradford’s Stonecliff Farms.

Isaac Balsam

Isaac Balsam (1880–1945) started the first Chalav Yisrael dairy farm on the East Coast, and possibly in the United States.


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Appin, New South Wales

Appin was for decades a major wheat-growing, and dairy-farming area, but wheat rust, and new railways reaching other primary producing areas of the State, reduced its importance.

Cowwarr, Victoria

The town is supported by district farming, including dairy farming, irrigated from the Rainbow Creek, which runs past Cowwarr, and the Thomson River.

Darnum, Victoria

Today the principal industry is dairy farming, with Fonterra, previously Bonlac Foods, operating a milk processing plant just north of town.

Lattin, South Tipperary

It is situated in an area of south Tipperary known as the Golden Vale, an area in which the land is particularly suitable for grass growing and dairy farming.

Perche

Stock-raising and dairy-farming are flourishing in the Perche, which is famous for the production of a breed of large and powerful horses, called Percherons.

Woollaston

It lies in quite flat dairy farming countryside a mile south of Shredicote and a mile west of Mitton.