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The Weighbridge Next to the actual farm with the milking cows, the farm is also constituted of a biogas plant. Taking advantage of the facilities there (trucks, buildings, etc.), my wife’s family have been collecting “green waste” for years now, and up until 2024, the cost for taking care of that waste was being paid for by a “per-habitant” tax paid by the town. Recently however, due to the so-called “principe de causalité”, in place of a tax/fee per capita, people bringing green waste to the biogas plant will have to pay for the amount they brought. As a result, a weighbridge had to be installed, which is only one part of the equation. ...

This article again covers a topic related to my wife’s family farm, but this time, instead of exporting milking data to Grafana, I will detail my usage of Michael Stapelberg’s amazing gokrazy project, which made it possible to reliably develop Go software to control fences around the farm. Fences and Cows 🐄 The farm is distributed on 2 sites, and on each site there are rather long electric fences, in which the cows happily pasture during the day (and for the heifer’s fence, also during the night). To prevent the cows from escaping the fences and e.g. eat our neighbour’s grass (which is always greener, as we all know), the fences are electrified ⚡️ with high voltage (6000V) impulsions every second. ...