A researcher with Wisconsin’s Dairy Innovation Hub is digging into why some dairy producers use robotic milkers while others avoid them.
Jalyssa Beaudry is a University of Wisconsin-River Falls graduate now working on her master’s degree at UW Madison. She tells Brownfield that 75% of dairy farmers surveyed are not considering automated milking systems for their farms. “The top two reasons we found is that it’s too expensive to purchase and install, and then the second reason was it’s too costly to maintain, so money is an issue when talking about adopting AMS.”
Beaudry says they’ve found farms with milking robots have more cows than the average farm, higher rolling herd averages, and more acres to manage.
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