date:Mar 25, 2014
cost, but the concept of combining automatic milking and cow grazing has potential advantages, which could have a positive impact on the dairy industry in Ireland in the long term. These include: reduced labour input; farmer time to focus on management tasks as opposed to manual labour input; ability to expand cow numbers on fragmented land bases; and increased knowledge of cow performance data to use as a management tool.
However, considerable research needs to be conducted to establish if the