Floating cows? floating land?

[Donkey Oaty]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/science-environment-49374766/the-floating-farm-for-cows

An interesting experiment being carried out in Rotterdam.

Could we see floating "land" on the scale of thousands of acres in future? It could be a possibility in sheltered waters.

 

[deleted user 837354]

Call me old fashioned but if you want food to be produced from water then fish would strike me as being the most obvious choice of animal to use if land ever became short...

 

[Donkey Oaty]

If land pressure increases enough, things like this could become viable, especially for high value crops. Fish will be farmed too. But people will still want choice and variety.

 

[Landy Nick]

I saw this on TV this morning and instantly thought the amount of crap in the water surrounding the floating barge. Half the hay & straw gets blown into the water.

 

[kfpben]

They make it sound revolutionary- but it obviously relies on all its feedstocks being grown on land nearby.

So it’s exactly like any other dairy- just happens to be floating for no obvious reason!

 

[maen]

It is very expensive technology to produce an inexpensive product. As a show case it is informative to city dwellers but not commercial. Cheaper to transport milk that operate the infrastructure that they have included on the ‘Floating Farm’

 

[CornishTone]

It did strike me as being an overly complicated way of doing something that is really quite simple.

 

[maen]

Through the Lowlands running up to Scandinavia most farming is overly complicated and expensive. Money seems to be no object, the exact reverse to UK. Most Danish farms are insolvent under UK banking rules.

 

[SteveHants]

Call me old fashioned but if you want food to be produced from water then fish would strike me as being the most obvious choice of animal to use if land ever became short...

What a revolutionary idea! If only there was a whole industry/branch of the sciences dedicated to that....

 

[wanton dwarf]

Only the BBC could report a bunch of cows isolated and floating in the middle of an industrial river requiring all produce and waste to be taken to and from it on a regular basis as an "Environmental Solution"

It would be far more productive to reduce deserts.