We voted for Trump to fix the border, now we are milking cows alone at 4am."

[getagrip_already]

73. I used to work on a family run dairy farm....

The max we could handle with one farmer and one worker was about 60 cows.

That was grueling work. 4 am till about 7 or sundown, whichever was later. Two milkings a day. Grow corn and hay, harvesting each. Breeding and birthing. Keeping the cows healthy.

Todays herds number in the hundreds to thousands. It is highly automated, but you still need people to set up, run the milkers, move animals, and clean equipment between milkings.

Then there is manure management, and feeding.

Food goes in, shit and milk come out. You also need to breed and birth new calfs to keep the cows lactating.

A few people are not enough. Not even close.