But translating to 88 million litres, that ought to mean good news for dairy cows.
Alfalfa is usually grown to be turned into hay, which is fed to dairy cows throughout the country.
Laatsch thought some potential exhibitors might have decided to leave their dairy cows home because they were already stressed.
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Dairy cows produce milk for 10 months after they give birth to their calves, and they must be milked every 12 hours.
The vast majority of dairy cows in the country are Holsteins, a breed that typically produces more milk per cow than others.
Even Swiss farmers outside the city centre encourage brave tourists to saddle up and ride their famous brown dairy cows on a day of cow trekking.
"This can be a huge cost for dairy farmers who lose prime dairy cows and consequently suffer financially from loss of milk volume, " said Andrew Lewis, Pembrokeshire NFU Cymru county chairman.
The Manor's farm supplies milk and dairy products from its Meuse Rhine Issel and Dairy Short-horn cows.
Besides the farm and the pottery and candle shops, there are a dairy barn with 10 cows, a print shop, a metal shop, a "weavery" and a wood shop.
The festival has also seen the launch of the not-for-profit Ahimsa Dairy Foundation, which sells milk from cows who will be retired when their milking days are over.
Vedran Bogdanovic, a veterinarian and dairy farm manager of close to 400 cows in Kapelna, Croatia, says Farmeron helped him meet laws for animal tracking and sales and also for reporting animal deaths to insurance companies.
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But while dairy companies focused on squeezing more milk out of fewer cows, they largely ignored the fact that demand was getting squeezed as well.
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Guernsey Farm sells its own dairy products all made from the milk of its herd of Guernsey cows.
Dairy farmers are now using computer systems to deliver different food to different cows as well as to monitor milk yields and health.
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Stephen runs the family dairy farm with his wife, Jill, and has been working at breeding high-quality cows for years.
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