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German farmers drink to end of EU milk quotas
Published Wed, Apr 1, 2015 · 09:50 PM
Kemberg, Germany
FRESH from a massage, the cows turn slowly on a computerised "milking carousel" - everything is ready at the Heideland farm south of Berlin to ramp up production once European milk quotas end on Wednesday.
"Look how well we treat them, all the space they've got, and here they even have a massage machine," said Richard Reiss, head of the giant farm of 1,200 dairy cows.
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