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Halcott, New York

IT'S about 24 kilometres from here to a dairy testing facility in Roxbury, or about one hour and 20 minutes round trip if you know these dusty mountain back roads like Chris DiBenedetto, a dairy farmer. He has been going back and forth for years, ferrying a sample of fresh milk for a federally mandated drug test before he can start processing each batch.

But what stressed him the most were the valuable daylight farming hours lost to the journey, while he was stuck in his car or waiting for the results.