Horses and cream wagon
Western Bay District Council via DigitalNZ

http://api.digitalnz.org/records/42723280/source

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Daily Herald: Illinois grant helps preserve Elgin’s ‘Butter Capital’ legacy through digital archives. “The Gail Borden Public Library District recently announced that a vital piece of local heritage, The Elgin Dairy Reports (1892-1903), have become fully digitized and freely accessible. Following a year of meticulous preservation work funded by a state grant, this one-of-a-kind historical […]

Next two Wednesdays I’m in a Dairy Australia mastitis management course. AMA 😂

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The problem with stupidly early starts on the farm is that I’m about to go to bed as I’ve been up 19 hours and am utterly toasted; I will now sleep a decent 7-1/2ish ours, meaning I will be awake around 5.

I start work again on Sunday, having only just got myself to the point of waking at about 6am. The cycle will start over.

My body clock is perpetually fucked.

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The Last Days of Butter Ridge

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/03/us/dairy-farm-butter-ridge-pennsylvania.html

Spending a couple of days in Camden on Sydney’s rural outskirts for Dairy NSW board meetings and meetings with NSW farmers.
As cities overtake these formerly separate towns, and they transform into semirural exurbs, you wonder what they become as pressure to be more city than country increases.
The hotel we’re at is clearly a community, social, and business hub and is busy every day. It obviously performs an important role here.
As a former city person, the cycle of rural life, the very significant effects felt because of political disconnect and geopolitical instability, the “vibe” of rural towns, and the gap in culture between city and country is something I still feel very clearly; I urge my city friends to ask their country family, friends, and acquaintances how they’re doing and what lies topmost in their concerns, because they’re very different to those in the city.

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