cowkeeper

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cowkeeper

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From cow + keeper.

noun cowkeepers

A smallholder who keeps one or several milk cows to fulfill household needs and earn some sales but is not a dairyer in the sense of running a herd of dozens or hundreds. Utilisation of sugarcane tops / Although some cane tops have always been used as a roughage feed, particularly in the past by smallholder cowkeepers, they are probably the most underutilised of all sugarcane by-products. Options for the use of cane tops are feeding as fresh material; ensiling fresh
archaic A cowherd; a cowman; a dairyer.

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@misc{cowkeeper_2026,
  title = {cowkeeper},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/cowkeeper},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}