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Early morning milking

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Early morning milking

Dairy farmers, like those on this Otago farm, are an occupational group that frequently works outside normal working hours. They may need to start before dawn to fit in with the schedule of the milk tanker that collects their product, as well as the daily routine of their stock.

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Otago Daily Times

Reference: 8 January 2005. p. 23

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Paul Callister and Robert Didham, Occupational structure – Time and place of work, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/22556/early-morning-milking (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Paul Callister and Robert Didham, published 14 April 2010.