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Meet Norman Daysh, the Kiwi whose groundbreaking innovation made milking cows a lot easier.

How Norman Daysh Reshaped Global Dairying

A century has elapsed since a pioneering invention by Norman Daysh, a little-known farmer from Pahiatua, reshaped the landscape of global dairy farming. Daysh’s mechanised vacuum pump milking machine, a product of relentless innovation, was so successful that its core principles, finely tuned by the milking machine company DeLaval, have endured virtually unchanged. In a…