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Cows

kesavaross said:
What's the actually purpose of a cowbell?
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... Cowbells were once very useful in Swiss rural life. With their herds, especially in summer, grazing high in the Alps and often on steep slopes, the bells were vital to keep track of them. Older farmers will still tell you they can hear each individual cow by the sound of its own bell.
But nowadays cows have electronic chips, and spend most of their time in fenced-off pastures. The row in Aarwangen is not the first over whether bells are really necessary.

Some Swiss farmers have already removed cowbells at night, so as not to disturb their neighbours' sleep. Others have given up on them altogether. ...

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-67296413
 
RaM said:
We get similar round here, townies move in then start complaining about narrow muddy roads
country smells animals being naughty in the fields slow tractors nothing for their little darlings
to do the list goes on, why they don't bugger off back to the shit hole they came from I don't
know.
:omr:
God that feels better.
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Yep.
 
ramonmercado said:
Not in the mood for moosic.

The gentle tinkling of cowbells is a sound almost everyone associates with Switzerland.

It conjures up images of peaceful pastures, with majestic snow-capped mountains in the distance.

But what if those bells are right outside your bedroom window day and night, and rather than tinkle gently, clang loudly around the necks of 20 or 30 cows? That is the dilemma many Swiss communities are facing.

Aarwangen, population 4,700, is a charming village sitting on the banks of the beautiful river Aare, the Bernese Alps in the distance. It has a medieval castle and an attractive centre with a church and traditional farmhouses.

But the village is also strategically placed to serve Switzerland's highly successful economy. It is just an hour from Bern, Zurich, and Basel and is a lovely place to live for city workers who want some peace after the day job. Now, a growing number of new houses and apartments extend out from the village's original centre.

But if you want complete quiet, Aarwangen, or anywhere in rural Switzerland, may not be for you. Those traditional farmhouses are still functioning, the green fields around the village are home not just to new houses, but to dairy cows, complete with bells around their necks.

For some of Aarwangen's new residents, the din proved too much. At least two families complained formally to the village council, asking for the bells to be removed at night.

Howls of protest ensued. Long-term residents, and the village's remaining farmers - just five or six according to village mayor Niklaus Lundsgaard-Hansen - were outraged at what they felt was an attack on their traditional culture.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-67296413
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Not just Quasimodo then!
 
The cow jumps over the moon.

Japan's space industry opened potentially an udder-ly new chapter on Thursday with a start-up testing a prototype rocket engine that runs on fuel derived purely from a plentiful local source: cow dung.

The experiment saw the engine blast out a blue-and-orange flame 10-15 meters (30-50 feet) horizontally out of an open hangar door for around 10 seconds in the rural northern town of Taiki.

The liquid "biomethane" required was made entirely from gas derived from cow manure from two local dairy farms, according to Interstellar Technologies chief executive Takahiro Inagawa.

"We are doing this not just because it is good for the environment but because it can be produced locally, it is very cost effective, and it is a fuel with high performance and high purity," Inagawa told AFP.

"I do not think it is an exaggeration to assume this will be replicated ...all over the world," he said. "We are the first private business to do this."

Interstellar, which hopes to be able to put satellites in space using the fuel, teamed up with industrial gas producer firm Air Water.

https://phys.org/news/2023-12-moo-n-cow-dung-fuels-japan.html
 
ramonmercado said:
The cow jumps over the moon.

Japan's space industry opened potentially an udder-ly new chapter on Thursday with a start-up testing a prototype rocket engine that runs on fuel derived purely from a plentiful local source: cow dung.

The experiment saw the engine blast out a blue-and-orange flame 10-15 meters (30-50 feet) horizontally out of an open hangar door for around 10 seconds in the rural northern town of Taiki.

The liquid "biomethane" required was made entirely from gas derived from cow manure from two local dairy farms, according to Interstellar Technologies chief executive Takahiro Inagawa.

"We are doing this not just because it is good for the environment but because it can be produced locally, it is very cost effective, and it is a fuel with high performance and high purity," Inagawa told AFP.

"I do not think it is an exaggeration to assume this will be replicated ...all over the world," he said. "We are the first private business to do this."

Interstellar, which hopes to be able to put satellites in space using the fuel, teamed up with industrial gas producer firm Air Water.

https://phys.org/news/2023-12-moo-n-cow-dung-fuels-japan.html
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Good idea although college kids have been lighting their farts for fun for at least decades so this is nothing new. I hope this works though.
 
ramonmercado said:
The cow jumps over the moon.

Japan's space industry opened potentially an udder-ly new chapter on Thursday with a start-up testing a prototype rocket engine that runs on fuel derived purely from a plentiful local source: cow dung.

The experiment saw the engine blast out a blue-and-orange flame 10-15 meters (30-50 feet) horizontally out of an open hangar door for around 10 seconds in the rural northern town of Taiki.

The liquid "biomethane" required was made entirely from gas derived from cow manure from two local dairy farms, according to Interstellar Technologies chief executive Takahiro Inagawa.

"We are doing this not just because it is good for the environment but because it can be produced locally, it is very cost effective, and it is a fuel with high performance and high purity," Inagawa told AFP.

"I do not think it is an exaggeration to assume this will be replicated ...all over the world," he said. "We are the first private business to do this."

Interstellar, which hopes to be able to put satellites in space using the fuel, teamed up with industrial gas producer firm Air Water.

https://phys.org/news/2023-12-moo-n-cow-dung-fuels-japan.html
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It sounds like bullshit.

:rofl:
 
ramonmercado said:
The cow jumps over the moon.

Japan's space industry opened potentially an udder-ly new chapter on Thursday with a start-up testing a prototype rocket engine that runs on fuel derived purely from a plentiful local source: cow dung.

The experiment saw the engine blast out a blue-and-orange flame 10-15 meters (30-50 feet) horizontally out of an open hangar door for around 10 seconds in the rural northern town of Taiki.

The liquid "biomethane" required was made entirely from gas derived from cow manure from two local dairy farms, according to Interstellar Technologies chief executive Takahiro Inagawa.

"We are doing this not just because it is good for the environment but because it can be produced locally, it is very cost effective, and it is a fuel with high performance and high purity," Inagawa told AFP.

"I do not think it is an exaggeration to assume this will be replicated ...all over the world," he said. "We are the first private business to do this."

Interstellar, which hopes to be able to put satellites in space using the fuel, teamed up with industrial gas producer firm Air Water.

https://phys.org/news/2023-12-moo-n-cow-dung-fuels-japan.html
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光陰矢の如し. "Time (and 'motion') flies like an arrow! "
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ramonmercado said:
The cow jumps over the moon.

Japan's space industry opened potentially an udder-ly new chapter on Thursday with a start-up testing a prototype rocket engine that runs on fuel derived purely from a plentiful local source: cow dung.

"We are doing this not just because it is good for the environment but because it can be produced locally, it is very cost effective, and it is a fuel with high performance and high purity," Inagawa told AFP.
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Of course, because putting rockets into space is good for the environment:roll:. People never cease to disappoint me with utter BS.
 

Northumberland farm firm fined over Marian Clode cow death​

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tyne-67726095

JM Nixon and Son admitted failing to ensure the safety of a non-employee and Mrs Clode's death was described as an avoidable tragedy.
The primary school teacher from Ashton-under-Lyne, in Greater Manchester, had been staying at Swinhoe Farm near Belford with her family for the Easter holidays in April 2016.
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Cow might have gone flying during severe weather​


HAZLEHURST, Ga. — You’ve heard the saying, “when pigs fly,” but what about “when cows fly?”

A Georgia man says that might just be what happened at his farm in Hazlehurst, Ga. during severe weather earlier this week.

Charles Marchant [said] that straight-line winds extensively damaged his barn, sucked water from a trough and may have even thrown one of his cows.

He says the bull moved from one pasture to another.

“We had one bull wind up in this pen where the horses were at, and we couldn’t figure out how he got there because the gates were shut,” he explained.

After the storm, the National Weather Service came out and confirmed to Marchant that the storm had “literally lifted a bull from one pasture to another.”

The NWS says there’s no way to know for sure what happened to the bull, but the legend is taking the community by storm.

https://www.wsbtv.com/news/local/le...e-weather-ga-farm/VVM6KP642ZBONNCWDQXYMDLOJI/

maximus otter
 
maximus otter said:

Cow might have gone flying during severe weather​


HAZLEHURST, Ga. — You’ve heard the saying, “when pigs fly,” but what about “when cows fly?”

A Georgia man says that might just be what happened at his farm in Hazlehurst, Ga. during severe weather earlier this week.

Charles Marchant [said] that straight-line winds extensively damaged his barn, sucked water from a trough and may have even thrown one of his cows.

He says the bull moved from one pasture to another.

“We had one bull wind up in this pen where the horses were at, and we couldn’t figure out how he got there because the gates were shut,” he explained.

After the storm, the National Weather Service came out and confirmed to Marchant that the storm had “literally lifted a bull from one pasture to another.”

The NWS says there’s no way to know for sure what happened to the bull, but the legend is taking the community by storm.

https://www.wsbtv.com/news/local/le...e-weather-ga-farm/VVM6KP642ZBONNCWDQXYMDLOJI/

maximus otter
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Or ~ could it have been down to the alternative reason why it ended up in the other pasture?

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Apparently 'the world's most expensive cow' is not two men beneath a white sheet.

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An imposing white cow with a distinctive hump on her back and flaps of "dewlap" skin flowing from her neck like a fashionable scarf set a record at auction last June in Arandú, Brazil. It was a prestigious win that continues to reverberate across the global beef-eating marketplace and, most celebratorily, in Brazil, where the cow was carefully bred and reared in the best of bovine circumstances.

When the bidding was closed, investors had paid a record $4.3 million for the magnificent Brazilian Nelore, an offspring of the ancient zebu breed of domestic cattle.

Continues:
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/most-expensive-cow-brazil-meat-market
 
Yithian said:
Apparently 'the world's most expensive cow' is not two men beneath a white sheet.

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An imposing white cow with a distinctive hump on her back and flaps of "dewlap" skin flowing from her neck like a fashionable scarf set a record at auction last June in Arandú, Brazil. It was a prestigious win that continues to reverberate across the global beef-eating marketplace and, most celebratorily, in Brazil, where the cow was carefully bred and reared in the best of bovine circumstances.

When the bidding was closed, investors had paid a record $4.3 million for the magnificent Brazilian Nelore, an offspring of the ancient zebu breed of domestic cattle.

Continues:
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/most-expensive-cow-brazil-meat-market#:~:text=Valued%20at%20over%20%244%20million,dominates%20Brazil's%20lucrative%20beef%20industry.&text=An%20imposing%20white%20cow%20with,last%20June%20in%20Arand%C3%BA%2C%20Brazil.
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Wow! That is a gorgeous cow. The pristine white with only a black nose. $4.3 mil:omg: I can't imagine the price for her calves. And what is the price for the sire?

Edited to add this article about the breed:
https://www.newsweek.com/cow-sold-millions-brazil-breaks-record-1809967
 
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Yithian said:
Apparently 'the world's most expensive cow' is not two men beneath a white sheet.

View attachment 75042

An imposing white cow with a distinctive hump on her back and flaps of "dewlap" skin flowing from her neck like a fashionable scarf set a record at auction last June in Arandú, Brazil. It was a prestigious win that continues to reverberate across the global beef-eating marketplace and, most celebratorily, in Brazil, where the cow was carefully bred and reared in the best of bovine circumstances.

When the bidding was closed, investors had paid a record $4.3 million for the magnificent Brazilian Nelore, an offspring of the ancient zebu breed of domestic cattle.

Continues:
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/most-expensive-cow-brazil-meat-market#:~:text=Valued%20at%20over%20%244%20million,dominates%20Brazil's%20lucrative%20beef%20industry.&text=An%20imposing%20white%20cow%20with,last%20June%20in%20Arand%C3%BA%2C%20Brazil.
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Am I the only one that looks at that photo and sees this?
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