Sentence Correction (SC) | Re: For the farmer who takes care to keep them cool, providing them with

For the farmer who takes care to keep them cool, providing them with high-energy feed, and milking them regularly, Holstein cows areproducing an average of 2,275 gallons of milk each per year.

Basis first, as this is an extreme use of modifiers coupled with pronouns and, most importantly, the meaning. To refresh our memories. "Ed" verbals are noun modifiers, and as noun modifiers, we need to place them as close to the noun they are modifying as we can. The prepositional phrases can be adverbial or modify the noun. Critical features of adverbials - we can place them a little far away as well. You'll see the implantation here.
For the ING, there are two ways to look at this sentence -
Comma + ING - it acts as an adverbial. It needs to make sense with the subject and verb before it.
ING + Comma - It acts as a noun modifier, modifying the immediate noun or subject.

Option Elimination -

(A) providing them with high-energy feed, and milking them regularly, Holstein cows are
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