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February 17, 2021 6:20 am
Last week, Lely Center Mullingar held a virtual farm walk on the farm of Jack and Bill Madigan from Co. Kilkenny.
The duo installed a Lely Astronaut A5 back in 2019 for its herd of 70 Fleckvieh and Friesian cows.
The father and son duo were involved in veal and miscanthus production before switching over to dairy in 2019. Speaking on the night, Jack said that they had two options when it came to how they would go about milking cows. He said it was either a second parlour or a “modern” robotic milking machine.
In the end, they decided on a robot. Here’s what Jack had to say about their decision to go down the robotic-milking route: “The reason why we felt a robot was a good option for us was that it was like having a relief milker on the farm, 24 hours a day – and an experienced one at that.