What a few years ago seemed like a utopia for the drums argentine, in the recent, and after 30 years with little or no incorporation of technology, they are appearing many projects of automation of drums. One of the things that might be driving these projects is that they will fell the paradigm of which were exclusive of the drums european boys. From DeLaval argue that most of the great projects in Argentina during 2021 were sheds robotic. In 2015 we installed the first robot in the tambo del INTA Rafaela, the VMS of Laval (as of VMS goes by Voluntary Milking System -System of Milking a Volunteer - an acronym that was built to the name of the equipment). After an early shy sales began to take off, and, according to our accounts, until the beginning of December of 2021 had been sold in Argentina, 172 units of milk robotic volunteer (AMS by Automatic Milking System).
With a similar cost between brands of around $ 145,000 BCRA/robot + accessory equipment (software, compressor, tank buffer and tranqueras separate), the local sales are divided between 3 marks as shown in the following chart: DeLavalwith historical roots in the local area, started in tip with the first sales, then, with a profile that is focused on robotics, incorporated Lely they went to the front and finally GEAthat almost left out of the graph, but got also in the film local (follow the links of each company for further detail).
This is an investment that will pay for the cows, delighted to go when they want to be milked, for going on 2 ordeñes daily to 2.7 or 2.8 ordeñes daily averaging the robots, because there is a dispersion according to the production of each cow, the dairy (Holstein) will increase 4 or 5 liters/cow/day milk production (this is without counting the number of litres extra that generates the comfort of a cabin, compost that would add another 5 lt average daily production). This production, on the one hand, is due to the increased number of milkings obviously, but unlike the system 3x, with this milking system volunteer (AMS), the team not only customize the times that each cow is milk, if not that the difference between the treatment for each quarter of each udder. We don't have clear what is the ceiling of production of a cow with comfort and milked voluntarily by equipment as sophisticated as the one we are seeing.
Remember that each robot milking around 65 cows with a yield of approximately between 1500 and 2500 liters of milk/day/robot according to the production system (pastoral or shed). Remember that each robot milking around 65 cows with a yield of approximately between 1500 and 2500 liters of milk/day/robot according to the production system (pastoral or shed). Pastoral systems are also incorporating robots, it is the example of Alexander Mulcahy on July 9, who recently has just launched the use of robots in one of its dairy farms in 9 de Julio (view video)
We are facing a technology that is novel to the milk production, all across America, north and south. There are many things in the game beyond the investment, a business strategy, ranging from the increasing difficulty of getting skilled labor, going on to address it Animal welfare and the 5 freed from the cow that claims for the consumer, up to the succession generational by the attraction that represents the technology for the youth of the family. This technology installed a new paradigm, a new system for the production of milk.
We share with you the photo of Ricardo Bossio, in charge of the tambo robotic Doña Laura Imbo Agricultural (Adelia María, Cordoba), a company in which Ricardo works from his youth when he milked by hand.
We will continue to, this is only beginning...
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