Cold Cold Milk 01
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Winter is not the farmer
(possessive case) favourite time of the year, especially if you are in central Michigan. But farming is a year-round, full-time job. Even when the fields
(cover) in snow, the work
(müssen / do). No one knows that
(besser als) Ken Nobis,
(who / which) oversees
(a / an) 800-head dairy herd on his three thousand acres near St. Johns, Michigan.
operation (Betrieb) / frigid (eisig kalt) / chores (übliche Arbeit) / employees (Angestellte) / smoothly (reibungslos) / task (Aufgabe) / familiar (vertraut) / equipment
February is
(der kälteste) month of the year. When the weather is
, each
just seems to take a little longer. Ken says, "If you’re
with winter climates, it’s just as simple as all the time. But the cows move more slowly and the
breaks
(häufiger). It’s just a much
(langsamer) process." It takes
(mehr als) twenty
to run this 24-hour seven day a week
. The cows in the milking herds
(milk) twice a day, at 2:30 in the morning and 2:30 in the afternoon. Milking is just one of the
(die getan werden müssen). Everything has to run
even when temperatures are
(unter, not "under") zero.
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