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| AMS technology was originally developed in Europe, for small housed herds on family operated farms that needed to counter increasing costs of inputs and falling milk prices by increasing their output per man-hour. |
The first systems/background:
AMS allowed farmers to achieve a higher milking frequency and provided greater flexibility and lifestyle. Automated milking systems are now in over twenty-two countries with varying farming methods.
Grazing is not yet common with AMS, mainly because people have found it difficult to achieve the higher milking frequencies when cows are turned out to pasture – as opposed to being housed indoors.
While farmers in other dairy processing countries, particularly Northern Europe, have been using automatic milking systems for some time it is still a very new technology for New Zealand farms.
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| One of the first successful attempts to attach a teat cup to an udder with a robotic arm, Silsoe Research, UK. (Picture: EJ Hillerton) |
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