Robotic Milking Machines Ireland

The main disadvantage would be the price with some systems costing as much as three times more than the traditional milking equipment.

Robotic milking machines ireland. Dairymaster s product range includes milking equipment milking parlours feeding systems automatic scrapers heat detection milk cooling tanks and more. Milking robot on display during this wednesday s national milk records farm walk. M y very first client who went down the robot route was a man in his late 60s milking 60 cows on his own and was seriously considering getting out of cows but wasn t really thinking of retirement. Its not all attributed to the robot but it has certainly played a huge part michael christine callan dunleer co.

Louth read the story. Robotic milking the first gea monobox in northern ireland october 9 2018 derick sylvia and hall donnell farm 73ha beside ballymogorry village just north of strabane in co. Niall moore and his family milk a herd of 125 british friesian holstein friesian cows under a split calving system in annestown co. Afimilk northern ireland.

In fact in ireland a standard robotic milking system would now cost in the region of 120 000 which represents a huge investment for farmers with a farm income well below those levels. Prior to installing a lely astronaut robotic milking system niall was milking in an old 10 unit herringbone parlour. Two lely a4 milking robots were installed on the farm in november 2017. So far scc has fallen from 300 000 to 60 000 mastitis cases are minimal and milk solids per cow have increased from 485 to 556kg.

Lely claims the a4 astronaut robotic milking system is now a real option for all sizes of farms ranging from a 60 cow herd upwards.