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Speaker 2: What does being a farmer mean to you?

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Speaker 1: Getting up with the sun and the roosters.

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Speaker 3: And milking cows?

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Speaker 2: Are you ready to make farming your superpowered Yeah? Last

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Speaker 2: episode we met doctor Michael Lazarus, a veterinarian who keeps

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Speaker 2: animals healthy. Today, we're putting on our overalls and boots

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Speaker 2: and headed across the pasture. Oh and watch out.

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Speaker 1: For the.

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Speaker 2: Cow, patty, ew, don't panic, it's organic. Have you ever

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Speaker 2: milked a cow? If you've ever dreamed of being a farmer,

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Speaker 2: or just love ice cream, cheese, yogurt and other dairy products,

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Speaker 2: you won't want to miss this episode. Today we're going

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Speaker 2: to meet a real dairy farmer. Rowan got milk if

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Speaker 2: you're a baby mammal, The answer is yes. It comes

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Speaker 2: from mama mammals right, of course. Eventually baby mammals grow

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Speaker 2: up and their bodies change. They stop eating milk and

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Speaker 2: they switch to other food.

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Speaker 4: I still drink milk, Cow's milk not me.

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Speaker 1: It gives me a tony ache.

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Speaker 2: Yes. Well, that's an interesting story that begins about eight

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Speaker 2: thousand years ago in Africa. You see early farmers herded cows,

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Speaker 2: sheeps or goats for meat. Then, over hundreds of years,

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Speaker 2: farmers learned to make basic yogurt and cheese from the milk.

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Speaker 2: Their bodies could digest those, but drinking the milk upset

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Speaker 2: their stomachs. However, scientists discovered bones from six thousand years

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Speaker 2: ago that proved humans were drinking milk. Slowly, humans became

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Speaker 2: milk drinkers. Of course, some still have problems with dairy today,

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Speaker 2: like me.

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Speaker 1: But why did they want to drink milk?

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Speaker 3: Good question.

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Speaker 2: Imagine you're a goat farmer in Africa. Water and edible

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Speaker 4: So the goat was like a walking grocery store.

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Speaker 2: You got it. Today, milk is still one way for

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Speaker 2: our bodies to get calcium, vitamin D, protein, and B vitamins.

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Speaker 2: We get most of our dairy from cows, but some

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Speaker 2: cultures rely more on goat or sheep's milk. What's your

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Speaker 4: Definitely chocolate.

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Speaker 2: I love strawberry, frozen milkat, excellent choices. Honestly, I love

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Speaker 2: it all butter, sour cream, ice cream, kafir cream, cheese,

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Speaker 4: This is making me hungry. It's almost Now.

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Speaker 2: What did the cow say to its hungry cow? It's

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Speaker 2: pasture lunchtime, get it pasture past your.

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Speaker 1: How about a song?

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Speaker 2: Oh, do you want some cow? Mousic ready?

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Speaker 1: Oh McDonald had a farm, ky.

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Speaker 2: And on his farm he had some cow with the moon.

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Speaker 2: Move here, a movement everywhere. Oh McDonald had a farm.

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Speaker 2: We're on a dairy farm. That's why there's so much

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Speaker 2: who in this field. They're moved to different pastures to

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Speaker 2: get exercise and do would cows do best? Graze on grass?

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Speaker 2: A cow choose grass or feed to moisten it. When

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Speaker 1: Okay, that's gross.

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Speaker 2: Hey, a herd is heading into the milking barn. Want

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Speaker 4: Sure, maybe we can taste of milk.

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Speaker 1: There's a lot of them.

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Speaker 2: Want to know how to count cows?

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Speaker 1: Oh no, another joke.

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Speaker 1: How can a dairy farmer milk so many cows?

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Speaker 2: They have machines that hold the udders to extract the milk.

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Speaker 2: The farmer's job to make sure the utterers are clean

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Speaker 2: Shall we stroll through for a look. Put in these earplugs.

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Speaker 2: It can't get noisy. Each cow has enough room to

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Speaker 2: See how the farmer connects the machine to the cow's utters.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, the cow doesn't even notice.

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Speaker 4: To Farmers go to school to learn out of milk.

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Speaker 2: Some learn by growing up on a family farm. Still

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Speaker 4: The farmers waiting for us to farm.

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Speaker 2: Are you ready to meet a real farmer?

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Speaker 2: Look at the signs. Wegnerland dairy farm and the farmer's

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Speaker 2: name is Annalise Wegner. Let's go hi there, Annalise. I'm

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Speaker 2: with Lingo kids, and we would find out what it

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Speaker 2: takes to be a dairy farmer. Can we ask some questions? Yes,

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Speaker 2: of course, is true that you're a second generation farmer

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Speaker 5: Yes, so I was born and raised on a dairy farm.

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Speaker 5: I grew up on my parents' dairy farm with my

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Speaker 2: Wow, then we are asking the right person. Can you

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Speaker 2: tell us three skills needed to be a dairy farmer?

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Speaker 5: I think to be a dairy farmer you need to

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Speaker 5: it's all about making those animals happy so that you

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Speaker 4: But how can you tell if the animal is happy?

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Speaker 5: There's a few different ways you can tell. Obviously, if

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Speaker 5: the animal is like comfortable, If they're laying down, cows

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Speaker 5: Also, if they're producing milk well that that's usually a

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Speaker 5: sign that they're well fed, that they're comfortable, they're happy,

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Speaker 5: they're cool. So there's a lot of different indicators we

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Speaker 3: That usually tells us they're happy.

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Speaker 2: Really interesting analyse. We also receive some excellent questions from

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Speaker 2: our Lingo Kids listeners, Analise, do your cows have names?

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Speaker 5: Oh, this is a great question. So on our farm

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Speaker 5: we have a lot of cows. Every farm is different.

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Speaker 5: name every single cow. However, we do have our favorites

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Speaker 1: How do they become favorites?

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Speaker 5: The favorites are usually the ones that are more friendly.

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Speaker 5: They might come up and lick you, do funny things

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Speaker 1: How does a cow keep making milk?

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Speaker 5: In order for a cow to make milk, she has

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Speaker 4: I, oh baby calves, And do they eat from the

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Speaker 5: When a calf is first born, they do drink out

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Speaker 1: And do you need to milk them every day?

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Speaker 5: Most farms milk their cows two to three times a day.

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Speaker 5: So when their utter is really full of milk, they're uncomfortable.

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Speaker 3: They want to get that out.

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Speaker 4: What's the best thing about being a dairy farmer.

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Speaker 5: I think that it's more than a job, it's a

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Speaker 5: There's very few jobs that allow you to be outside

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Speaker 1: It was kind of like that for me during the

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Speaker 4: Yep, I remember it too. Oh, this smells enalies doesn't

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Speaker 5: I think everyone probably has their own opinion on that.

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Speaker 5: To me, it smells like fresh air because I'm.

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Speaker 3: Used to the smell of animals and manure.

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Speaker 2: Italy's what can kids do now? Wow, they're still growing

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Speaker 5: There's different programs like four H or FFA that allow

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Speaker 5: You can even show dairy cattle at your fair. There's

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Speaker 5: take a tour, go talk to that farmer. Do whatever

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Speaker 2: What about visiting the actual farm. Do you get visitors

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Speaker 5: We do have different school groups that will come out

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Speaker 3: To their dairy products.

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Speaker 5: I think it's just fun to see kids excited about

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Speaker 2: Thank you, Analyse, I'm sure you've got our listeners really

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Speaker 2: excited about dairy farming. We hope you enjoyed this episode

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Speaker 2: of the grown Up Podcast. Even if you never plan

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Speaker 2: to be a dairy farmer, it's good to know who

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Speaker 2: your local dairy producers are and ask them about their farms.

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Speaker 2: You can usually meet them at your local markets and

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Speaker 2: find out more about life on the farm. Next time,

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Speaker 2: we'll meet a real inventor.

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Speaker 2: It's so fun to learn what you.

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Speaker 6: Can be growing up growing up, So come and join us.

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Speaker 6: Come everyone, so we can learn while having lots of

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Speaker 6: fun because it's so fun to learn what you can be. Yes,

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