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Living in a country where people are expensive and machines are cheap, I can attest the automation level is higher here. For instance, I often see cows at farms here enjoying automated brushing systems. There are youtube videos in english, but I don't recall ever having seen something like that in the US, even at Harris Ranch.

(I have yet to witness a farmer using fully-autonomous hay feeding robots, but the ag magazines have been running articles on them)

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The rules (in Germany, but also other places) say you either have to offer the cows these brushes or brush them manually. It's not really a choice.

Wasn't the choice between offering the brushes or brushing them manually? Around here I see that farmers find installing a EUR 2'500 brush to be much cheaper than attempting to pay cheap foreign labour to brush cows.

(TIL automated pig brushes also exist)

Yes, I meant it's not a choice whether to brush at all. And if you have more than one or two cows the choice between the autobrush and manual seems clear, especially since the cows seem to love them and can use them whenever.

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