Animals: Timeline of automatic
milking system development

1985* First milking cup is attached to a cow using a robotic arm under experimental setting
1992 First commercial AMS installed on a farm in The Netherlands
2000 Approximately 800 farms worldwide using AMS
2001 First cow milked in New Zealand using an AMS (Greenfield Project, Hamilton)
2003 
Greenfield Project herd is expanded to 180 cows milked by two AMS
2007  Approximately 8000 AMS units in operation on farms in 22 countries worldwide
2008  First commercial AMS farms established in Ashburton and Winton, New Zealand

*approximate

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  • InsideDiary July 2011 "International focus for automatic milking" View PDF (3 mb)
  • Automatic Milking a Reality in Canterbury - Dairynewz, Autumn 2009 View PDF (183kb)
  • Southland Farm Looks to the Future - Dairynewz, Autumn 2009 View PDF (179kb)
  • An evaluation of two pastoral dairy production systems using automatic milking technology - Proceedings of the New Zealand Grassland Association, 2010 View PDF (831kb)
  • Titles - Related AMS articles View PDF (34kb)

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