{"id":161,"date":"2019-07-02T18:43:49","date_gmt":"2019-07-02T18:43:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/david-farrell\/?p=161"},"modified":"2019-07-02T20:11:19","modified_gmt":"2019-07-02T20:11:19","slug":"amish-ask-you-a-question","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/david-farrell\/2019\/07\/02\/amish-ask-you-a-question\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Amish&#8217; ask you a question ??"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Wednesday the 26th and Thursday the 27th of July, I made trips to Amish and Mennonite farms in Kentucky. This was a great opportunity as I got to experience the cultures and how each performs with little equipment as we have in Ireland. On these farms duties carried out were <br>1- Catching flies from backs and under bellies of cows<br>2- Milk sampling cows <br>3- DHI testing<br>4- Forage sampling  <br>5- Blooding cows <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/david-farrell\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2019\/07\/20190627_164613-e1562092903327-498x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-162\" width=\"210\" height=\"432\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/david-farrell\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2019\/07\/20190627_164613-e1562092903327-498x1024.jpg 498w, https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/david-farrell\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2019\/07\/20190627_164613-e1562092903327-146x300.jpg 146w, https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/david-farrell\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2019\/07\/20190627_164613-e1562092903327-768x1580.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/david-farrell\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2019\/07\/20190627_164613-e1562092903327.jpg 1960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 210px) 100vw, 210px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/david-farrell\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2019\/07\/20190627_170827-e1562098201115-498x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-179\" width=\"210\" height=\"432\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/david-farrell\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2019\/07\/20190627_170827-e1562098201115-498x1024.jpg 498w, https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/david-farrell\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2019\/07\/20190627_170827-e1562098201115-146x300.jpg 146w, https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/david-farrell\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2019\/07\/20190627_170827-e1562098201115-768x1580.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/david-farrell\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2019\/07\/20190627_170827-e1562098201115.jpg 1960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 210px) 100vw, 210px\" \/><figcaption>Cows were milked using a movable bucket which could hook up to vacuum pipes<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wednesday the 26th and Thursday the 27th of July, I made trips to Amish and Mennonite farms in Kentucky. This was a great opportunity as I got to experience the cultures and how each performs with little equipment as we have in Ireland. On these farms duties carried out were 1- Catching flies from backs &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/david-farrell\/2019\/07\/02\/amish-ask-you-a-question\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8216;Amish&#8217; ask you a question ??&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":77,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/david-farrell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/david-farrell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/david-farrell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/david-farrell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/77"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/david-farrell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=161"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/david-farrell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":180,"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/david-farrell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161\/revisions\/180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/david-farrell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/david-farrell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/david-farrell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}