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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Myriad Pro","sans-serif"'>Hat tip to Karen Miles for bringing this to our attention. What a great idea! Milk anyone?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Myriad Pro","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Myriad Pro","sans-serif"'>Farmer's 24 hour milk filling station a hit<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Myriad Pro","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Myriad Pro","sans-serif"'>Wed, Sep 8 2010<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Myriad Pro","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Myriad Pro","sans-serif"'>BERLIN (Reuters) - A German dairy farmer has come up with a novel way to<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Myriad Pro","sans-serif"'>drum up new business -- he opened a "milk filling station."<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Myriad Pro","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Myriad Pro","sans-serif"'>The "Milchtankstelle" near Cologne in the town of Neunkirchen-Seelscheid<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Myriad Pro","sans-serif"'>dispenses the output of 78 cows from a stainless steel vending machine.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Myriad Pro","sans-serif"'>Customers can either bring their own empty containers or buy milk<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Myriad Pro","sans-serif"'>bottles to fill up.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Myriad Pro","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Myriad Pro","sans-serif"'>"I only had a few customers before I opened the station because they had<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Myriad Pro","sans-serif"'>to come at set milking times, which was a problem," dairy farmer Bruno<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Myriad Pro","sans-serif"'>Stauf told Reuters. "Now they can buy my milk whenever they want."<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Myriad Pro","sans-serif"'>The milk filling station is open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Myriad Pro","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Myriad Pro","sans-serif"'>Customers can select the amount of milk they want to purchase at a price<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Myriad Pro","sans-serif"'>of 70 cents per liter. They insert the money, put their container under<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Myriad Pro","sans-serif"'>the nozzle and press a button.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Myriad Pro","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Myriad Pro","sans-serif"'>"We were no longer getting very much for our milk from the local dairy,"<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Myriad Pro","sans-serif"'>Stauf said, who like many dairy farmers in Germany has felt the squeeze<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Myriad Pro","sans-serif"'>of downward pressure on prices at discount supermarkets.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Myriad Pro","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Myriad Pro","sans-serif"'>Article continues at: <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Myriad Pro","sans-serif"'><a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE6873JG20100908?feedType=nl&feedNam">http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE6873JG20100908?feedType=nl&feedNam</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Myriad Pro","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Malgun Gothic","sans-serif";color:black'>Shauna, OKC<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%'><i><span style='font-size:8.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial Narrow","sans-serif"'>Imagine, innovate, create, collaborate<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%'><span style='font-size:8.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial Narrow","sans-serif";color:#365F91'><a href="http://www.sustainableokc.org"><span style='color:#365F91;text-decoration:none'>www.sustainableokc.org</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%'><span style='font-size:8.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial Narrow","sans-serif";color:#365F91'><a href="http://www.goinglocalokc.com"><span style='color:#365F91;text-decoration:none'>www.goinglocalokc.com</span></a> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%'><span style='font-size:8.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial Narrow","sans-serif";color:#365F91'><a href="http://thinklady.typepad.com%20/"><span style='color:#365F91;text-decoration:none'>http://thinklady.typepad.com /</span></a> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%'><span style='font-size:8.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial Narrow","sans-serif";color:#365F91'><a href="http://freshgreens.typepad.com/"><span style='color:#365F91;text-decoration:none'>http://freshgreens.typepad.com/</span></a> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:Webdings;color:green'>P</span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:navy'> </span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:8.0pt;color:green'>please don't print this e-mail unless you really need to</span><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>