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By: Christiane Breitenberger
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She is always welcome there: Rosa Razfar in the cowshed with her boss Franz Taferner (M.) and farmer Martin Kiening.
© Roswitha Höltl
You can retire at the age of 85.
But Rosa Razfar still works in the district as a so-called millimeter.
In the summer she thinks about quitting.
But: she actually doesn't like the idea.
During a visit to the stables, she explains why she loves her work so much - for 50 years.
Prittlbach/Niederroth – Somehow no one really buys her idea.
Rosa Razfar, 85 years old, stands in Martin Kiening's cowshed in Niederroth.
The woman from Prittlbach has been coming to the farm regularly for over 50 years, and she actually wants to stop working in the summer.
Rosa Razfar is a millimeter;
at least in the colloquial sense.
Rosa Razfar's job is correctly called a sampler.
Because: She takes samples of milk
from farms in the Dachau district for the
LKV .
The most important thing about milk performance testing
The State Control Association (
LKV
) is responsible for data collection on dairy cows.
Franz Taferner, performance auditor at LKV and Rosa Razfar's supervisor, explains the most important facts: Around 80 percent of companies in Bavaria take advantage of this voluntary, paid offer.
The samples provide information about the daily amount of milk a cow produces, as well as its protein and fat content.
The samples are examined in a laboratory.
Of course, Franz Taferner knows how measuring has changed over time: “50 years ago, experts still took samples with buckets, scales and pipettes.” Later, the first relief came: the so-called Tru Tester, which automatically measures milk pumps the sample into a cylinder.
The sample for the laboratory still had to be taken with a pipette.
However, the Lactocorder has been around since the late 1990s, “it takes the sample that comes into the laboratory completely automatically.”
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Rosa Razfar came to the stables when the milk that was to be sampled was still in buckets.
There was nothing yet with machines that now independently take samples during milking.
Whatever the weather, she came to the farmers in her gray VW Beetle. In all these years, even in the depths of winter, she "only got stuck once and I only overslept once," says the 85-year-old and laughs.
The tireless millimeter: 85-year-old finds it difficult to give up her job
If you want to be a millimeter, you shouldn't have a problem getting up early.
Because it used to be the case that a sampler had to come by twice a day when the farmers were milking their cows.
Once in the morning, once in the evening.
“And some milked their cows before 6 a.m.,” remembers Rosa Razfar.
But getting up early was never a thing for her, on the contrary: “It actually worked out great, I was out early and collected the samples, while my husband was with the children.
And when I got home, he went to work."
Then the same thing in the evening.
Rosa Razfar visits each farm eleven times a year and takes the samples with her.
It's not just technology that has changed the process enormously, but also the corona pandemic.
Since then, Razfar only has to collect the entire day's samples in the evening.
Rosa Razfar's job is much more than just taking milk samples in cow stalls
Rosi, she doesn't stop.
That's part of it!
Farmer Martin Kiening from Niederroth
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A wide variety of measuring devices: Rosa Razfar has already taken milk samples with everything from the scales to the lactocorder (hanging on the left at the back) and turkey tester (right).
© Roswitha Höltl
Anyone who thinks that the millimeter just comes to the farm and collects samples is very wrong.
Rosa Razfar has long been a part of some of the farms she looks after.
“It's part of the family for many people,” says Rosa Razfar's son Michael.
As a teenager, he often accompanied his mother at work and helped her.
Today he came to the Kieninghof in Niederroth.
He always laughs out loud when he realizes that no one here wants to believe that his mom is actually quitting this year.
How cows' milk volumes have changed in 50 years
Farmer Martin Kiening says casually as he passes: “Rosi, she doesn’t stop.
She's part of it!” Definitely on this farm, Razfar saw the children grow up there and how they had children again.
There are 50-year-old handwritten reports from her that Martin Kiening still keeps in his office.
Rosa Razfar not only recorded how much milk each cow produced in kilograms per day, but also what her name was.
There was Hanni, for example.
On October 4, 1977, her weight was 18.8 kilos, and Margot gave 17.5 kilos of milk that day.
Today the amounts of milk that cows produce are completely different.
Razfar knows that we are talking about more than 50 liters per cow per day.
A farmer used to sing and ask me to dance in the cowshed.
Rosa Razfar
But numbers aren't the reason she loves her work so much, it's the people.
“I used to often come in after milking and we would have breakfast together,” she remembers fondly.
“It was all very family-like.” Or in a farm in Pullhausen there was a neighbor who always helped the farmer with the milking.
He always ensured a good atmosphere, “he always sang and asked me to dance in the cowshed”.
It is these and many other stories that make it so difficult for Rosa Razfar to draw a line in the sand, despite her 85 years.
“She would probably prefer to just pass out in a cowshed,” says son Michael.
The millimeter doesn't like the thought of quitting
The Millimesser used to look after 16 companies; today there are still twelve.
“I would never have given one up on my own; the ones that were dropped stopped on their own,” emphasizes the 85-year-old.
And that's exactly where the problem lies: Rosa Razfar likes all of her businesses.
The thought of quitting: she doesn't like it.
Simply make a few fewer businesses: unthinkable!
“I can’t decide who I’ll give away!”
Nobody in the stables in Niederroth believes that Rosa Razfar will stop in the summer.
Or no one wants to believe it because: The millimeter woman is part of the farm, part of the family.
“You can’t stop,” says Gabi Kiening one last time that day and shakes her head with a smile.
“What is Rosi doing at home?”
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