Where's the butter?!?

[matsuki]

Japan Inc. still dredging the 80's for more "original" ideas?

[Taro Toporific]

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Biggest robot dairy in Asia setting up Japan’s milk revival
The Japan Times | Oct. 6, 2016
Jin Kawaguchiya gave up a career in finance to help revive Japan’s ailing dairy industry, one robot at a time.
In a country that relies increasingly on imported foods like cheese and butter, Japan’s milk output tumbled over two decades, touching a 30-year low in 2014. Costs rose faster than prices as the economy stagnated, eroding profit, and aging farmers quit the business because they could not find enough young people willing to take on the hard labor of tending to cows every day.
But technology is altering that dynamic. In Hokkaido, Japan’s top dairy-producing region, Kawaguchiya transformed the 20-cow farm he inherited from his father-in-law 16 years ago into Asia’s largest automated milking factory. Robots milk 360 cows three times a day and make sure the animals are fed and healthy.
"Without robots, I would have to hire as many as 15 part-time workers to take care of cows,” Kawaguchiya, 44, said during an interview at the dairy in Kakuyama. “I can save ¥15 million a year thanks to them."
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[Russell]

With all these robot experts in Japan, one would think that they would be able to make milking robots themselves. But no, it's the Europeans who came up with them. I would not be surprised if the Americans also make such robots. But where is Japan?

[Mike Oxlong]

With all these robot experts in Japan, one would think that they would be able to make milking robots themselves. But no, it's the Europeans who came up with them. I would not be surprised if the Americans also make such robots. But where is Japan?

Tenga?

[matsuki]

With all these robot experts in Japan, one would think that they would be able to make milking robots themselves. But no, it's the Europeans who came up with them. I would not be surprised if the Americans also make such robots. But where is Japan?

Tenga?

Probably too small for milking the cows

[wagyl]

With all these robot experts in Japan, one would think that they would be able to make milking robots themselves. But no, it's the Europeans who came up with them. I would not be surprised if the Americans also make such robots. But where is Japan?

Tenga?

Probably too small for milking the cows

That is either a small cock or a large teat. Maybe you have never been hands on on one or other or both of them.

[Coligny]

With all these robot experts in Japan, one would think that they would be able to make milking robots themselves. But no, it's the Europeans who came up with them. I would not be surprised if the Americans also make such robots. But where is Japan?

Tenga?

YAY !!!!!!!!!

[matsuki]

With all these robot experts in Japan, one would think that they would be able to make milking robots themselves. But no, it's the Europeans who came up with them. I would not be surprised if the Americans also make such robots. But where is Japan?

Tenga?

Probably too small for milking the cows

That is either a small cock or a large teat. Maybe you have never been hands on on one or other or both of them.

Not hands on but the local condom sizes in Japan are probably a good indication of Tenga sizing...

[kurogane]

But where is Japan?

Hmph. Some Dutchman you are They're too busy faxing each other tips on hand milking and manual churning. Seriously, though, farmers everywhere tend to be conservative, Hokkaido probably doubly so, so intertia and simple stubborn mental indolence get my vote. Are Jpn dairy farmers not quite coddled, like say Canadian dairy and egg farmers? That alone breeds complacence.

BTW, haven't hit any butter scarcity yet here in Asserkisser. Did you guys grease the wheels?

[Samurai_Jerk]

But where is Japan?

Hmph. Some Dutchman you are They're too busy faxing each other tips on hand milking and manual churning. Seriously, though, farmers everywhere tend to be conservative, Hokkaido probably doubly so, so intertia and simple stubborn mental indolence get my vote. Are Jpn dairy farmers not quite coddled, like say Canadian dairy and egg farmers? That alone breeds complacence.

BTW, haven't hit any butter scarcity yet here in Asserkisser. Did you guys grease the wheels?

There's still butter available at my local Summit but the standard cheaper stuff that everyone usually buys has been consistently sold out in recent weeks. Especially the salted kind.

[wagyl]

But where is Japan?

Hmph. Some Dutchman you are They're too busy faxing each other tips on hand milking and manual churning. Seriously, though, farmers everywhere tend to be conservative, Hokkaido probably doubly so, so intertia and simple stubborn mental indolence get my vote. Are Jpn dairy farmers not quite coddled, like say Canadian dairy and egg farmers? That alone breeds complacence.

The biggest issue is that they have a herd of only 20 cows, and that doesn't justify the investment in a robot.

[kurogane]

Yes, a bit like the rice paddy problem in that way. But I got to make a fax joke!!!!!!!!!!!!

SamJ,
Is this Summit place any good and where is it? I am nearer Minowa / Minami Senju than Kaminari Mon/Kuramae, etc.

[Samurai_Jerk]

Nothing special. Just your standard regional supermarket chain. They have them all over the place.

http://www.summitstore.co.jp/

[legion]

I discovered where the butter is.

My fridge.

The wife was at work, we were having a BBQ in the park, I needed some coolant for the ice box and discovered a butter mountain at the back of the freezer compartment.

[matsuki]

You sure it's butter and not her ex?

[kurogane]

I discovered where the butter is.
My fridge.
The wife was at work, we were having a BBQ in the park, I needed some coolant for the ice box and discovered a butter mountain at the back of the freezer compartment.

Was it behind the stacks of emergency toilet paper?
BTW, you shouldn't put coolant in a cooler. That's for radiators and such.


PS How long has it been since you had such a I Married a Japanese moment.
very sweet, btw. That's a good wife.

[legion]

Well what do you call those bags of something vaguely gel like you put in the freezer then put in the icebox to keep beer cold?

[Mike Oxlong]

Cold packs for injury, ice pack for cooler.

[Coligny]

Cold packs for injury, ice pack for cooler.

Injury stuff stay flexible after being frozen
Beer cooler stuff get stiff as fuck

[Taro Toporific]

A spokesperson of the Hokkaido agricultural cooperative enthusiastically bragged on TV yesterday how they deliberately engineered butter shortages.
http://blog.livedoor.jp/dqnplus/archives/1904804.html

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Yoshihiro Kondo of the Hokuren Agricultural Cooperative Federation, Dairy Commerce Section, Dairy Department, Dairy and Livestock Business Division
Video clip at: https://twitter.com/hideki0103/status/8 ... 7672647680

[Ol Dirty Gaijin]

9 pages about butter. Fuck y'all.
3rd world nation shit. Next we'll need to line up for bog rolls.

[yanpa]

Expecting a major earthquake?

[wuchan]

Isn't that, you know, illegal n' stuff?

[Coligny]

Isn't that, you know, illegal n' stuff?

What are you ?
A fucking commi ?

[kurogane]

Newbie


That is seriously greasy assed shiite. I hope this news churns up some discussion and investigation, and charges or at least punishments are spread around if substantiated.

[matsuki]

Newbie


That is seriously greasy assed shiite. I hope this news churns up some discussion and investigation, and charges or at least punishments are spread around if substantiated.

You have to love how casual and condescending he comes across in his explanation. Another chapter in Japan marketing, customer feedback be damned, we decide what you want!

[yanpa]

Newbie


That is seriously greasy assed shiite. I hope this news churns up some discussion and investigation, and charges or at least punishments are spread around if substantiated.

Butter wouldn't melt in his mouth. Anyway isn't it time the Kurds weigh in on this issue?

[Yokohammer]

I'm going to have to make a note of this in my dairy.

( ... possibly milking this one a little too hard ... )

[kurogane]

Hardly the cream of the crop but I think the puns so far have been rather smooth

[wuchan]

Newbie


That is seriously greasy assed shiite. I hope this news churns up some discussion and investigation, and charges or at least punishments are spread around if substantiated.

rhetorical question... The real question is: "why isn't Abe-chan hanging this guy to prove that the TPP is neccacary?" Oh, wait... trump.