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Kind of moo: Dairy farmers are playing their cows jazz music in a bid to improve their milk yields

Cuba's Paquito D' Rivera plays the clarinet before a session of the international jazz festival being held in Maldonado, Uruguay. The festival runs 05 January to 08 January. AFP PHOTO/Leo BARIZZONI (Photo by LEO BARIZZONI / AFP) (Photo by LEO BARIZZONI/AFP via Getty Images).

This one may have passed you by, but apparently there is a new TikTok trend of videos featuring farmers playing jazz to their dairy herds.

The idea being that – like all of us mammals of a higher intelligence – cows respond better when they have a good soundtrack in their ears. And something mellifluous like jazz or classical music could ultimately produce higher quantities of milk.

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