Fully automated milking several decades away - Dairy NZ

Fully automated milking several decades away - Dairy NZ
Paul McBeth
By Paul McBeth June 18 (BusinessDesk) - Industry body Dairy NZ sees fully automated milking as a major opportunity to lift on-farm productivity, but doesn't expect it to be commonplace for several decades.  About 44 percent of the country's dairy herd are milked in more efficient rotary dairy sheds, despite the style accounting for just over a quarter of the nation's sheds. About 72 percent of the country's dairy sheds are the less efficient herringbone style. In its submission to the Productivity Commission's inquiry into the impact o...

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