Uptake of AMS since 1992

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Animals: Uptake of AMS since
1992

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The adoption of automatic milking went slowly until 1998. Since 2004 the numbers of farms adopting AM have continued to grow exponentially and now there are over 8000 units in operation worldwide.

Use of automatic milking systems on commercial farms worldwide:

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Tools

Glossary of Terms
Partial budget on the economics of implementing an AMS View PDF (106kb)

Publications

Automatic Milking Systems brochure

Articles

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)