New Zealand dairy farmers are lining up to take a trip across the Tasman, to see the first commercial robotic rotary milking system in the Southern Hemisphere. Swedish dairy technology company DeLaval, together with Australia's FutureDairy, have installed the new AMR machinery on a farm in northern Tasmania.
Currently milking 250 cows, but with the potential to milk 600, the five-robot AMR has a 24-unit internal, herringbone rotary platform. Country 99TV's Benedict Collins met with some of DeLaval's New Zealand based staff in Cambridge, to hear about the new machine which, they say, could transform both farmers' productivity, and their lifestyle.
