 Oh, hey Philip, what are you doing here? Hey, well, I'm about to go into a meeting with some state legislators. Uh, well, so I got Stanley to cover those meetings for you, because I have another job for you to do. Okay. Uh, you might want to change your clothes. Hello. Hi. I'm Matt. Hey, I'm Philip. How old? I'm Daniel, my new hire. For now? I guess so. All right. Well, are you ready to get to work? Yes, sir. Well, let's go. All right. Man, these are some big cows. You want to stay between your back legs. Okay. And keep your fingers off these pipes. Okay. When she kicks her hawk right here, you can see it from that pipe. So if you want it to stay away from that, you really can hurt her. You know, she might touch it, but she's not going to hurt you. Okay. To melt these cows, this is our free dip. We're going to spray this on to clean the cow, and we'll dry it off and put the milk in and get it on. All right. So you spray it and knock her down, and then you move to the next cow. Okay. You want to try this one? Sure. When you don't have to touch the cow, I just spray it through this. Nothing else, you can't put paint on it. You'll get kicked, and she'll hit you right here. Okay. So you never put paint on her. Sorry, just go ahead and spray it. Yeah, spray it through this. Oh. You get sprout ones. There you go, now move to the next cow. It's on down the line. When I first heard that the government affairs worker was coming out to be my employee for the day, I was very skeptical. I'll have to admit, I'm giving him high scores on his dress. He looked the part, he's a little too clean. Did you use some paper towels? Now we're just going to dry her off. They're cleaner in the process of drying her off. You get about two towels. You just gently dry her off. You're going to get clean like that. Go ahead and reach in there, you're okay. Oh. Go ahead, she's not kicking. You might dance a little, you won't kick. Okay. That's pretty good. You're going to get a little dryer than that. I was hoping to learn a lot about what our dairy farmers do in Arkansas. And I've learned a lot about that. And, you know, just get my hands dirty. Those are my expectations and I got them dirty. A couple of reasons to dry them off. One is to disinfect the udder. To have a clean location to pull the milk from. And two is to, for cow health, you want the udder dry. Okay. While the machine is on her. I'll just put this cow in the pocket. Activate the machine. And push it on the button. And get into this job. So how many gallons would you get? What do you usually get from each cow? About eight gallons per cow per day. How many cows do you all do in a day? About 180. That's why it's a day. You get half your milk in the morning and half in the afternoon. Get your left hand and dry her as you leave it. How's that? Yeah, you got that one pretty good. Nice. All right. Throw your dials in the bucket. And you push the button to release. Just catch it. So I just, I've got to turn around. I hold that cap. Hold that one. Oh. I'll hang you black. Oh yeah. Let me get this changed. So I will say milk in the cow was more automated than I thought it would be. You know, once Matt showed me how everything works, you know. Just making sure I put everything in the right places and don't get kicked by the cow or don't have anything drop on you. So once I understood that process, it seemed very straightforward. Oh yeah. She left you a present. She what? She left a present for you. Oh, thank you. Thank you. Now the trick is to dodge it. You're gonna blow up my sleeve for this one? Thing I found my new job guys. So I Stanley, I think this is the business for me. I have to increase her feed or we won't get milk twice a day. When's the first time y'all do it in the day? We started four in the morning. I changed my mind. I like my job now. Oh. And then there's that thing. This is a particular reason why y'all do it at those times of the day. It's actually about three hours of milk. So you want to get done in the afternoon at a reasonable time. So you have to start early enough to get finished. Do you take naps in between? At night. You know. So when y'all get all this milk, where does it go? We've got a refrigerated storage tank in the other room. As it's coming out of the cow, it's going into the small tank. And as it fills it automatically pumps through the storage tank. And the storage tank's refrigerated. And then do you have somebody come pick it up? Yes. The marketing comes after two to three days to pick the milk up. And haul it to the market. But see, it's coming out of the cow at her body temperature. Oh, okay. One and a half degrees for a cow. In two hours after it comes out of the cow, we'll have it down to 36 degrees. Okay. The milk comes through a stainless steel pipeline. And goes into the refrigerated tank. Here the tank's running right now. And it's already cooled the milk down to 38 degrees. Okay. Okay, you can go up and inspect the milk that you've pulled out. That's good to me. Maybe take a milk bath. Anybody ever fallen in? No, from time to time you do have to go in it and clean it. Is that what you have your sons for? Well, unfortunately I get to do that. Feed the stalls. Hence the barn gets its name, Free Stalls. The stalls don't have gates on them. The cows are free to come and go. They've got water on the outside and the center. They can have access to it all times. And they've got feed in front of them all the time. So the cows that you just milk came back down here in their living environment. After we got started with the milking process, I showed him what we expected and how to perform the task. After monitoring the task for the day, on a scale of one to ten, I'd have to give him about a six. Well, you know, I enjoyed what I did today, and I think I'll leave the milking up to the professionals. These guys know what they're doing. But me, on the other hand, I'm happy to go back to the Capitol and advocate for these guys, make sure they can stay in business and so that their children can keep doing it. It is important to keep our dairy farms here in Arkansas. Matt, thanks for having me out here. I was really excited to learn about what you all were doing. Everything you told me went in one ear and out the other. Anyway, sorry. Such a bad joke. You have to cut one.