"Those Hollywood types don't have any idea what's going on out here on the farms," said Mr. Rogers, a retired dairyman from Visalia, the county seat in a Central Valley region where cows far outnumber people.
The last few years I've been invited to the Big Island of Hawaii's premier food and agriculture event, the Mealani Taste of the Hawaiian Range at the Hilton Waikoloa Village, where I've been able to sample and eat every part of a cow so far, except for, well... it's BALLS, otherwise known as Rocky Mountain Oysters.
My shop was the mid-19th-century barn that had once housed three cows, as far as I could tell, or perhaps two cows and a draft horse.
These feedlots -- the nation's first -- began rising on the high plains of western Kansas in the 50's, and by now developments catering to cows are far more common here than developments catering to people.
The 100-foot blades of each of the windmills, whooshing slowly through the air as cows graze far below, will reach 328 feet high, as tall as a 32-story building.
So, while dairy cows are far from endangered, the last auroch, their wild ancestor went extinct in Poland in 1627.
The state uses an estimated 100 billion gallons of water per year to grow feed that gets shipped to cows as far away as China, Korea and the United Arab Emirates.
But dealing with cars and cows is far from sufficient to make the deal acceptable policywise, much less to avoid the foreseeable political disaster if Obama makes Bush's NAFTA-style trade deal his own.
In Holsteins, there were fewer SNP significant for SCC and Holstein cows displayed far fewer significant associations than Holstein bulls, which was also reflected in higher FDRs (Table 1; Additional file 3: Table S3).
Khudr's ambition with "The Cow Farm" was far different.
