Although it smells like any other dairy farm, this one is far from traditional. A new futuristic 3-story floating farm in the Netherlands showcases what its creator calls a sustainable way of producing dairy in the world's busy cities.
In this photo taken Monday, June 24, 2019, one of the inhabitants of a futuristic three-storey floating dairy farm moored in Rotterdam harbour, Netherlands. The floating farm has one robot that milks the cows, another that automatically scoops up the manure, and a roof designed to collect rain water, making it a sustainable inner-city producer of dairy foods aimed at feeding the increasing populations within world cities according to the small holding farmer Peter van Wingerden.
Its roof collects rainwater and a raft of solar panels floating alongside produces 40% of the energy the farm needs. “Transporting all this food all over the world is really polluting the world. It’s doing damage to food quality, it creates food losses,” he said in a recent interview. “So we have to find a different model. We have to bring it much closer to the citizens. And that’s what we’re showing over here.”
When the herd reaches its target capacity of 40 cows — there are currently 35 — it will produce 800 liters of milk each day. The brown and white cows are a breed called Maas-Rijn-Ijssel — named for three rivers that flow through the Dutch region they originate from. “These are animals that we all like and then we like to see them in a meadow,” he said. “And then we bring them into a very industrial environment and I think that’s something that many people think is not the right direction for livestock farming to go into.”
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