share milking

A form of sharemilking — A form of sharefarming in the dairy industry, in which the owners of cattle move them between different farms.

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Meanings

nounshare milking (uncountable)
  1. alternativeuncountableAlternative form of sharemilking.

    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.

    2006, Anthony Rosen, An UnOrdinary Life, →ISBN, page 137
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    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.

    2008, Anthony H. Andrews, Roger W. Blowey, Hugh Boyd, Bovine Medicine: Diseases and Husbandry of Cattle, →ISBN, page 1177

    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.

    2013, Fidelity Lancaster, People, Land and Water in the Arab Middle East, →ISBN
  2. alternativeuncountableAlternative form of share-milking.

    Another option for OAD is “share milking"—leaving the calf with the cow while still milking.

    2015, Carol Ekarius, The Essential Guide to Hobby Farming, →ISBN
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    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.

    1966, Farm Mechanization and Buildings

    “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

    2004, Gene Logsdon, All Flesh is Grass: The Pleasures and Promises of Pasture Farming, →ISBN
verb
  1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of share milk
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