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@prologic@twtxt.net @jlj@twt.nfld.uk @fastidious@arrakis.netbros.com Yup, very neat indeed. They got the machine sometime this year. You pay one Euro for one liter raw milk, which is also a really good deal. At the shops you pay about 1.10€ for a comparable quality and it is already pasteurised. The farmers get I don’t know how many cents, at most 30 or 40 I reckon. Probably even worse. Here the full 1€ goes to the farmer. Granted, he must pay off the machine itself, but still, makes a lot of difference. Win, win. It’s really yummy, highly recommended. Depending on the exact route I choose it takes me about 10-15 minutes by pushbike. Today, it is drizzling a bit, so my backpack was covered in moist dirt from the wet and muddy road, but oh well. :-) When I was a little boy my dad and I went to the local farmer with our milk can, that was pretty awesome. It was about 1-1.5km away from our house, so we always walked there. Nowadays, there are milking robots everywhere I believe, nobody is milking by hand anymore. At least I can’t imagine. It wouldn’t be possible anyways with all the 50 cows (or how many there are). Small farms are all closed or about to finally die out. Haha, not sure whether milk was diluted with water here as well.

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