DATA-LED DAIRIES

milked). Most of the latest robotic milking machines are measuring a wide range of cow data including yield, constituent values of the milk and cell counts. The machine provides this data for each quarter of the cow’s udder to allow for any specific treatments or care to be given, also allowing for more precision farming to take place. All of the data from the robot can be analysed for management purposes in order to ensure cow health is as high as possible. The robots can also measure the weight struggle to get staff to cover these shifts.

Many farmers are making the change in order to improve time efficiency as instead of allocating a large proportion of their day to milking the cows they can use this time to manage the cows more effectively. This is further helped by the technology on the robot as if a cow is not producing what has been expected the system will automatically alert the operator. Farmers who have