China's Cow Town

Farmer inspects cows, Inner Mongolia
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Most of China's milk and beef starts out under the watch of farmers like He Erwen, who keeps seven cows in his front yard at Bingzhouhai village, outside Hohhot, to sell milk to a nearby dairy twice a day.

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