Moo-ving to the future? Cows try 'Floating Farm' in Rotterdam

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ROTTERDAM - Dutch businesswoman Minke van Wingerden looks on proudly as one of her 32 brown-and-white cows makes a pit stop at an automated milking station on an unusual farm: a platform located on one of the waterways in Rotterdam port.

“So then we realized ‘why not produce fresh food healthy food on the water close to the city?’, and that’s where the idea came up.” The structure’s roof is used to collect rainwater. Power for the farm comes from a solar panel array floating nearby.

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