Jul 09 2009
A video-riffic week
It’s been a busy week with the video crew at Twin Valley. Tuesday we filmed the Concordia KS milkman. He’s 88, still drives a milk truck route, making home & retail dairy deliveries. The best part is he’s a pilot, and now that he’s had a pacemaker put in, the FAA has cleared him to fly again! He invited me to go up with him sometime in the near future- and I hope to take him up on it.
Wednesday, we toured and filmed the Ohlde Dairy at Linn, KS. I always enjoy telling these kinds of stories because people these days have little idea of where the food comes from, even people living right here amongst the food being produced. It seems to me that milk cows have it pretty good as far as livestock lives go. They live in hotel-like conditions, with sprinklers & fans to keep cool, soft bedding, plenty of food to eat, and three times a day going for a walk to the milking parlor to be milked. My favorite part was watching the cows walk in and line up into position. They all automatically turn their backsides toward the machine so they can be milked. It was almost like watching a circus act of trained animals, seeing them do that trick.
When I was a kid, I once milked my uncle’s Jersey cow, but that was many moons ago so it was a real treat to get to do a little milking myself yesterday. A lot different than when I was a kid. Gloves were required, not so much for my benefit but for the cows. Have to keep those udders clean and germ-free.
Today I interviewed Bruce Graham, the lead instructor at the Cloud County Community College Wind Energy Technology program. We have a brand new wind farm here in Cloud County, and plenty of people, myself included, have been wondering about those gigantic wind turbines. He shared a lot of good information.
Tomorrow, I will be heading to Hutchinson to the Kansas Cosmosphere to film the Space Camp that my daughter Emily is attending there. She’s been gone all week and I’m looking forward to seeing her.
Give me some time to get all of this stuff compiled and edited & I will be sure to share some video clips with you. It has really been a video-riffic week!
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The modern dairys are amazing! When we first moved into our house we were about $60 shy each month, I went looking for a small part time job and ended up at a dairy farm. Fabulous experience.
Just saw my uncle, who first taught me how to milk a cow. He saw my dairy video on his high speed digital TV FTTB connection (Fiber to the Barn). For real, he lives way out in the country, but has the very best internet technology.