Dairy media take part in robotic farm tour

AKC Marketing client Lely USA embarked on a two-day tour of 5 dairy farms in Iowa, Minnesota and Wisconsin that all milk their dairy herds with Lely Astronaut A3 robotic milking systems. AKC invited two key dairy industry editors--Karen Lee of Progressive Dairyman and Lana Olson of Hoard's Dairyman--to go along on the tour. The editors, plus a group of dairy farmers also on the tour, learned the intricacies of robotic dairy production...how cows are easily trained to freely visit the robot for milking. The group saw how one Lely robot can milk up to sixty cows three times each day, greatly reducing the manual labor stress on the farmer and his family.


Lely is the world leader in dairy robotic technology, having gained the leadership position in Europe where 60% to 70% of dairies are robotic operations. With its recent arrival in the United States, Lely is aiming to help U.S. dairyman realize the financial advantages, the cow-health improvement, milk volume increases--and the lifestyle enhancement--that come with quality-built robotics. R2D2 has nothing on these machines.