{"id":145,"date":"2013-12-07T10:09:57","date_gmt":"2013-12-07T10:09:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/agscope.co.uk\/?p=145"},"modified":"2013-12-07T10:09:57","modified_gmt":"2013-12-07T10:09:57","slug":"recent-trip-to-netherlands-provides-a-little-insight-into-cow-building-design","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agscope.co.uk\/index.php\/recent-trip-to-netherlands-provides-a-little-insight-into-cow-building-design\/","title":{"rendered":"Recent trip to Netherlands provides a little insight into Cow Building design"},"content":{"rendered":"

During a short visit to the Netherlands one a of the many things I picked while on this study tour ( many thanks to Effective Micro organisms for sorting this), was the fact that most of the dairy cow buildings we\u00a0walked around where mainly insulated , to help control the climate in the shed. Insulation as we know does help maintain a more consistent temperature and avoid the peaks and troughs that can be apparent in\u00a0un insulated sheds, resulting in condensation and interrupted air flow.\u00a0In the\u00a0UK to find a insulated dairy cow building is in my experience quite rare (I stand to be corrected), we\u00a0do have a lot of open big spanning\u00a0buildings which can have air temperatures which \u00a0vary greatly over the duration of a day,\u00a0we really do get excited about air flow , which is I am sure is\u00a0right , but do we need to look at insulation maybe as a option I know there is a cost implication but there could be long term benefits to consider, after\u00a0all the\u00a0dairy farmers in the Netherlands won’t just\u00a0insulate for the fun of it.