I showed my dad a you tube of the robot milker. He was in awe; but that is understandable since he is old enough to remember helping his dad milk cows then deliver said milk house to house with a horse and buggy.
I have heard 60 to 65 cows per robot considering 10% free time to give timid cows a chance to milk. Add in the dry cows and you are up to 75 cows per robot.
It would be interesting to see how it pencils out. If you could lay off hired labor to pay for the 200k robot OK. But for the small family farm with little to no outside labor it becomes a bigger challenge. You have to use your now free time in other ways to increase efficiency to help pay for the robot because going from 2 to 2.75 milking's a day is not gona pay for it.
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