It took a while, but Jackson Bertanees (Ngāi Te Ruahikihiki) has gotten used to the long hours and the early morning starts that dairy farming demands. Two days a week Jackson is up and out of bed at 2am. At 3am he’s in the milking shed where he’ll spend four hours milking 1150 cows. Then he heads for breakfast before returning to the farm to spend a couple of hours doing tasks before heading home for a rest and some downtime. About 1pm it starts again with the same 1150 cows making their way back in to the 64-stall rotary shed on Ngāi Tahu Farming’s second dairy farm. The herd will have produced less milk in the hours since their morning milk so this time around Jackson will usually spend about three hours in the shed attaching the cups that drain up to 25,000 litres of milk a day from the … Continue reading Meet Jackson Bertanees