And then there was my 18 cow herd with 2 single unit De Laval milking machines---- Fred
@marshalloutdoors17913 жыл бұрын
Hello from Indiana. Glad this technology is helping you to bring in more income and less stress on the dairy cows.
@formerfarmer17183 жыл бұрын
Very interesting! 👍 I wasn’t raised in a dairy family but I’ve always admired dairymen. Keeping up with and hopefully ahead of the “economy of scale” is always a good thing. And to people like Julian, you are a farmer! And, though I dont know you, Quite likely you’re a third or fourth generation farmer that likely started back when 100 cows could support two families.👍
@tonymckeage10288 ай бұрын
Great Video, I love the idea of Robots especially in the meduim to large scale dairies, thanks for sharing
@skibik643 жыл бұрын
I tuned into to see a robot milker in action not just talk about them!
@Wezly3 жыл бұрын
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@sk8guitardrums3 жыл бұрын
Having worked with cows most of my life and worked in the conventional system of milking in a parlour to now have 2 robot milkers, i think there is always pros and cons to both methods. milking the cows you end up knowing them more and bonding with the cows in the heard. you also get chance to see / inspect if they have any problems with there teats, udder, feet or other. When the robots are new and everything is clean it looks good, however in a few years time the robots have gremlins and need lots of maintenance, like any machine. Staff, is about the same as you would be surprised how much work involved in keeping everything clean. one advantage of robot is normally (unless major problem) they should be running during the night and no need to have to wake up at 1am like i did for years. plus the robot has individual tubes from each unit / teat into its own sensor so can detect high cell counts or a problem, and will dump the milk if its not fit for the tank. cleans between each cow. Its not all glory, if i am honest from all the systems i have seen, I still think a rapid exit parallel with feeders is a good parlour to have if it had the technology of detecting the milk and self cleaning of the unit between each cow (if this is available) would be my preferred option. just see how friendly the mature cows are with me in my videos, this is because i have known them since they was born and milked them in the old parlour and we have a bonding, they trust me and i take good care of them. obviously all of them are super friendly and like me because i also look after / clean out all the heifers. like anything pros and cons to both systems. i just don't think you save much time or staff either way.
@markknoop6283 Жыл бұрын
The maintenance cost clear they are a 20 year old system. Laybor cost is lower on a decent maintained robot.
@AgriNovusIndiana5 жыл бұрын
That is a great example of #agbioscience innovation in Indiana!
@JR-mv7uz3 жыл бұрын
The innovation is from holland ;) There is not robot developed by US guys, maybe the boumatic but......
@harvestfarms3 жыл бұрын
wont get to see robots do anything
@peponisgaming94423 жыл бұрын
How many people you want for all the farm jobs like feeding cleaning ?
@deanpahl85913 жыл бұрын
I wonder what kind of deal they cut him to put in all these robots, he says he saves so much on labor, but he doesn't talk about what cost to maintain. Go back and ask him what he thinks about robots in a couple years.
@brettkavanaugh94483 жыл бұрын
Numbers are in the video
@deanpahl85913 жыл бұрын
@@brettkavanaugh9448 sorry I must have missed them.
@deanpahl85913 жыл бұрын
@@brettkavanaugh9448 watched video again, did not mention cost of robots to install, that would influence my decision.
@JR-mv7uz3 жыл бұрын
@@deanpahl8591 5.22 in the youtube. I'm sure with buying 36 robots in one deal you get a nice price, als don't forget less m2 in compare to rotary with holdup pen. So i'm not sure you can compare that one to one. My robots cost against convential in Holland is about 1 eurocent higher, but we let lely do a lot maintenance, so there you could win in my situation and chemicals from lely or from CID is also a nice different, were i could win more.
@deanpahl85913 жыл бұрын
@@JR-mv7uz it's just I have customers who have robots and they are having their problems, service, reliability, they still have the same amount of work and headaches, just in a different way.
@haweater15553 жыл бұрын
With that many robots, if one (or two or three) break down, not much of a big deal versus a single unit on a small farm going down.
@back40woodhoundsenior933 жыл бұрын
do the robots drink any milk,no do they buy anything, no they are just machines
@turdferguson743 жыл бұрын
What do u do with all the manure
@haweater15553 жыл бұрын
Spread over the fields to build up soil that grow food for the cows to eat. Been done for thousands of years. Where does YOUR personal manure go?
@jasvirsingh80953 жыл бұрын
Do you need a worker/ helper?
@MrBillFletcherr3 жыл бұрын
So you got rid of the labors...
@haweater15553 жыл бұрын
They mean Trump kicked out the laborers.
@LtColDaddy712 жыл бұрын
I see two great hopes for the dairy industry. Robotics, and beef on dairy. Take that bottom half of your performers, and breed them to a good line of beef genetics. Take your top half and breed them to great milk genetics for your replacement heifers, and get a cash rush from selling others off as breeding stock. We’ve been lured away from stackable enterprises for decades. In my opinion, it’s been a huge mistake.
@andrewsarles35204 жыл бұрын
Wait 5 years when those parts are obsolete and you have to update the software every year?
@MissEldira4 жыл бұрын
How many work hours would have been saved by then. Best cost over time is what matters even if you'd had to buy a new robot every 5 years.
@thePersson4 жыл бұрын
About 10-15 years they usually last
@Gustav43 жыл бұрын
we have had robots for 25 years, our current robots are 11 years old, service is top notch
@annahkurtin53453 жыл бұрын
OH! The humanity of it.
@haweater15553 жыл бұрын
Large installations of robots are uncommon but do exist. The robots are really intended as a saviour to the "small" farms, milking minimum of 50. More cows mean more robots, and once you reach a few hundred cows, there is no economy of scale with them versus the capacity of a large parallel or rotary parlor operated at all hours. The real reason, as he said, was the availability of labor, basically Mexican illegals. Once Trump clamped down on immigration, Wall or no Wall, labor supply vanished.
@mackreel68103 жыл бұрын
Old school.
@boatman68653 жыл бұрын
As someone reared on an irish dairy farm this is an abomination. Cows locked up like battery hens, compared to cows who can roam outside eating grass. That is why Irish butter and beef are so superior to this factory output.
@haweater15553 жыл бұрын
In Canada, far more cow freedom and comfort with robots than than the old barns that have cows confined to tie-stalls all winter. Grass rarely grows when there Is a foot of snow for months at a time.
@RealityTrailers3 жыл бұрын
What's next, robots that slaughter cows at the right time and place, so as not to bother the cow much during the process?
@nickmarriott45203 жыл бұрын
Sounds like a good idea, you should try patent that before some else beats you to it.
@RealityTrailers3 жыл бұрын
@@nickmarriott4520 Too late.
@rant12003 жыл бұрын
Milk,the new coal.
@ReneeWardRealtor3 жыл бұрын
Sucks. Robots deprive breathing living humans to a honest days work. I dont care how efficient it is
@provenxreaperx3 жыл бұрын
It saves your back and let you fokus on the animal itself instead of washing and udder handling for hours on end each day. It instant increase the amount of milk of each cow
@benjaminbauer48832 жыл бұрын
Plus go find someone to milk cows. And don't say pay more already pay more then other industries for people who do similar work.
@dwainmcbain52633 жыл бұрын
I hope those robots like milk because who is going to buy the milk. These efficiency gains are short term and will fail in the end.
@JR-mv7uz3 жыл бұрын
25 years milkrobots are on the market, you living under a stone?
@dwainmcbain52633 жыл бұрын
@@JR-mv7uz oh my that’s such a long time lol stick your head back where it was and we can all just wait for universal basic income. Then I can gladly stay under my rock.
@bryanginder59034 жыл бұрын
We were milking the cows, ahh no you weren't your workers were milking the cows you sit behind a desk he's a farm manager not a farmer any more!!
@DannyJ-4203 жыл бұрын
Lmao shutup quit hating cuz he makes money owning his daddys old farm🤣
@AntonyMB3 жыл бұрын
You're not wrong Brian, but this farmer is just being innovative. When autonomous tractors etc. gain traction all farmers will eventually become farm managers. If corporations don't just buy them out that is.
@nickmarriott45203 жыл бұрын
That is what farming has become, it's not like the old days anymore, there is so much compliance work, paper work etc now days. the top level decisions is where the money is made not standing in a dairy shed putting cups on.
@benjaminbauer48832 жыл бұрын
You could say that about the generation before his because they used a tractor instead of using hand tools. It's innovation and efficiency
@wyndhamhewlett822310 ай бұрын
WHO HAS THE BIGGEST BALLS!!!!!
@MisterEC13 жыл бұрын
Drink Soy milk and forget the cow.
@Yankeeprepper3 жыл бұрын
How long have you been pretending to be a female?
@MultiSamson13 жыл бұрын
Factory farm.
@cameronhaagsma74733 жыл бұрын
call it what you want but i bet you’d hate having to milk your own cows by hand
@JR-mv7uz3 жыл бұрын
and what you want to say with that? The cows having in probably better then on a real small dairy, were her you can feed to what they need, having 24/7 people around it, special groups for cows. So what point you try to make?
@markknoop62833 жыл бұрын
With the automated feeding system from lely it looks like it. Bud there is still human intervention.
@haweater15553 жыл бұрын
The places that create "fake beef" and "fake milk" are straight-out factories, not farms.
@markknoop62833 жыл бұрын
@@haweater1555 in these farms the farmer has more time left to pay attention to his cattle.
@jonnydoom86534 жыл бұрын
Lol no wonder theirs no jobs. Perfect example of it being all about the money. This guy being interviewed is what’s wrong with the world
@armr69374 жыл бұрын
People with a vague idea of what working means are what's wrong with the world. Nothing wrong in making the crap jobs nobody wants obsolete and earning more money in the process. Nature adapts to survive, to conserve or acquire energy. Humans aren't exempt from this. Money is a form of energy. Try living without energy, see how long you last. I see wasted privilege in your ignorant opinion.
@jonnydoom86534 жыл бұрын
Yes and you sound like a guy that’s out working earning a living lol. I’m a welder / cattle hauler/ yard hand on a cattle ranch meathead lol. I stand by my first comment.. and only lay when it’s with your women. Give your head a shake and think about the big picture before you comment. Sorry about getting childish and saying that about your women but it’s true. 🍻 cheers Mc Fly
@susand4954 жыл бұрын
Yes we probably should not have converted to better phone systems & eventually digital & smart phones either. Think of all of the abused operators & their jobs that were eliminated! We could still be turning a hand crank on a phone & waiting for an operator to connect us or waiting for our neighbor to get off of the party line (shared phone line) as when I was young. We could still be tethered to phones by cords if not for modernity! Joy! Lol!
@jonnydoom86534 жыл бұрын
Susan I think your missing the point ... but I figured I’d get an inbreed response or 2 when I posted an honest opinion about the downturn of the world! 🍻 vote Biden 2020 and prey!