share milking

English

Noun

share milking (uncountable)

  1. Alternative form of sharemilking
    • 2006, Anthony Rosen, An UnOrdinary Life, →ISBN, page 137:
      Tasman Agriculture, as the Paterson operation was called, went over to one hundred per cent share milking and within another eighteen months went public with 17,000 cows.
    • 2008, Anthony H. Andrews, Roger W. Blowey, Hugh Boyd, Bovine Medicine: Diseases and Husbandry of Cattle, →ISBN, page 1177:
      About 30 per cent of the dairy farms are operated on a share milking basis where, for example, the owner is responsible for the farm maintenance and the fertilizer costs, whilst the share milker owns and milks the cows.
    • 2013, Fidelity Lancaster, People, Land and Water in the Arab Middle East, →ISBN:
      Share milking is fairly common in years with good springs; a woman who has time will milk and process the milk of a flock where the women have no time, and share the produce.
  2. Alternative form of share-milking
    • 1966, Farm Mechanization and Buildings:
      In this case share milking meant keeping the mother from her calf during the night and seeing that the family's requirements were met first in the morning.
    • 2004, Gene Logsdon, All Flesh is Grass: The Pleasures and Promises of Pasture Farming, →ISBN:
      Share milking,” as it is called, was challenged in Indiana, and it took a lengthy battle with the bureaucracy and finally the help of the governor personally before Mark and Debbie were allowed to proceed
    • 2015, Carol Ekarius, The Essential Guide to Hobby Farming, →ISBN:
      Another option for OAD is “share milking"—leaving the calf with the cow while still milking.

Verb

share milking

  1. present participle and gerund of share milk
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