Farms and Farm Machinery

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They have revolutionised their unit into a very high tech dairy enterprise.

Dairy farms are changing. With advances in automation technology, robots are now being used to feed and milk the cows, fill feed mixers and distribute the contents, even push the silage closer to the cows in the feed passage and scrape the manure off the slats.

These robotic appliances not only reduce the labour required, they can also collect endless streams of continuous data, which can then be used for a plethora of different management decisions.

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