date:Mar 25, 2014
In an automatic milking system a robot undertakes the manual work traditionally associated with milking a herd of cows. The system is set up to guide individual cows to come to a milking stall on a voluntarily basis on up to three occasions per day.
A study is currently being conducted at Teagasc Moorepark to determine the feasibility of integrating automatic milking with cow grazing. The system has 70 spring-calved cows of Friesian, Jersey-Friesian cross and Norwegian Red breeds.
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