HOW MANY COWS DO YOU FETCH?

A couple of months ago I met with a farmer to prepare for a panel discussion. I asked if there were any questions he did not want me to ask. Way at the top of his do-not-ask list was, “How many cows do you fetch?” His point was, the number doesn’t mean much because different people fetch different cows for different reasons. For the record, I did not ask, but someone in the audience did. Sure, a fetch cow is a cow that you bring to the robot because she does not come when she should - but cows are brought to the robot because they are overdue for milking, because they need training, because they might be overdue at some point in the future, or because they are having a bad day. Are they all fetch cows?

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