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Former National MP builds dairy shed which milks 600 cows an hour

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Newstalk ZB,
Publish Date
Thu, 27 Feb 2020, 12:59PM
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Former National MP builds dairy shed which milks 600 cows an hour

Author
Newstalk ZB,
Publish Date
Thu, 27 Feb 2020, 12:59PM

Official figures show we're producing more milk, with fewer cows.

Better investment in technology is being credited for the increase.

One Taranaki farmer doing that right is former National MP, Shane Arden.

He's just built what could be the country's fastest dairy shed, which is able to milk 600 cows an hour.

Shane Ardern joined Kate Hawkesby to explain how he managed to build.

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