Dairy
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A dairy is a place where milk is stored and where butter, cheese and other dairy products are made, or a place where those products are sold. It may be a room, a building or a larger establishment. In the United States, the word may also describe a dairy farm or the part of a mixed farm dedicated to milk for human consumption, whether from cows, buffaloes, goats, yaks, sheep, horses or camels.
Old mountain pasture dairy in Schröcken, Vorarlberg, Austria, in the Bregenz Forest
Farmer milking a cow by hand
Wawa Dairy Farms in Pennsylvania
A cow being milked in British Palestine, 1936
Agricultural cooperative
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An agricultural cooperative, also known as a farmers' co-op, is a producer cooperative in which farmers pool their resources in certain areas of activities.
Agricultural cooperatives in Guinea
Headquarters of Hokuren Federation of Agricultural Cooperatives in Sapporo, Japan
A smallholder coffee farmer in Colombia contributing her coffee to an agricultural cooperative. Cooperatives give small farmers an opportunity to be more competitive in markets, especially commodity crops like coffee and cocoa where many of the purchasers are large businesses who can manipulate markets.
Sugarcane weighing at a cooperative sugar mill in Maharashtra, India