Chinese strategy
OPINION: Fonterra may have sold its dairy farms in China but the appetite for collaboration with the country remains strong.
The daily chore of hosing or floodwash could be a thing of the past if you have Discovery Collector C2 on your milking shed floor.
Robotic milking can open the door to many different management tools driven by data received in the farm office or via hand-held devices.
Cows benefit from robotic milking. They are more relaxed, healthier, and reward farmers with more milk.
Ian & Carmen Comins, Kihikihi, set up their farming operation in 2018, starting with 80 cows and working on increasing to 110, saw many attractive benefits to putting in robots, starting with just one robot they put another in 2020.
Robotic milking specialist Lely has announced that Exos, a fully autonomous vehicle for harvesting and feeding fresh grass, will be commercially available to Dutch dairy farms from the middle of 2024.
Dairy Women's Network is joining forces with robotics company Lely to raise awareness about milking cows automatically.
Dutch robotic specialist Lely launched a new farm management application called Horizon at its recent Future Farm Days 2020.
OPINION: Fonterra may have sold its dairy farms in China but the appetite for collaboration with the country remains strong.
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