Exchange program is one of way to get more knowledge and experience from other country with work together and living in farm with local farmer. Talking about Finland you will find nokia (name of city in Finland), santa claus and aurora. The real Santa Claus lives in Finland. While the actual Santa Claus workshop is located at Korvantunturi fell deep in the wilds of Lapland, his office can be found on the Arctic Circle in Rovaniemi. This is scandinavian country, the most people are friendly. In every home you will find kahvia ja pulla (coffee and bread). They are often eat this every day and also with their guest.
The language in Finland is finnish. It has more than 17.000 lakes and have very large forest (65%). Summer start in june-august, autumn in september-november, winter in december-february and spring in march-may. The temperature in summer about 20o-30oC and in winter about –20o until -30oC. Some time it has very long time winter start in december-april (north in Finland). You will find something amazing in here, ther is no dark in the night on june (24 hours light). Summer is time for picking strowberry, redberry, blueberry in field and winter is time for skying in everywhere especially in downhill. Ít is so fun can feel four season in here.
In this year, I have opportunity to work in dairy farm at Siikajoki (www.siikajoki.fi) and get chance to visit valio company in oulu, watch the ancient tractor fair and farmary 2009 (annualy big event to learn about agricultural technology and finnish culture) . My work is all about activities in farm such as milking, feeding, cleaning etc. I work 8 hours per day start on 6.00-10.00 am and 17.00-21.00 pm. We have more than 80 cows (also calves) and produce milk 1500 lt/day. We sell all fresh milk to Valio company. Valio is the biggest dairy company in Finland (www.valio.com). It always take milk from the farm every 2 days with milk car and give note about quality of milk from farm to farmer (percentage of protein, fat, solut, urea, bacteria, temperature etc), so all farmer must keep their quality of milk.
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