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How many cows can a Lely A5 milk? ›

A Lely Astronaut A5 robotic milking system can milk 60 cows per robot or more, with an average of 2.6 milkings per cow per day. These figures are dependent on factors such as milk speed and production. Typically a robot can achieve 180 milkings per day with a goal of harvesting 5000 pounds of milk per day.

Guidelines suggest one unit is sufficient for 65 lower-yielding milkers. However, Holsteins producing 10,000l+/lactation need less pressure and more space. Therefore, stock about 55 cows per robot.

Each unit costs roughly $200,000, with many dairy farms requiring two or three to fully transition their operations to robotic. Lely is a Dutch company that designs and manufactures robotic milking systems, including the Lely Astronaut A4 robotic milking system.

Being comprised of modules your Lely Vector system can be expanded, if necessary. One mixing and feeding robot can feed up to three hundred animals. To increase feeding capacity, a second robot can be added. While one is feeding, the other one can be loaded.

In its recently released annual financial results for 2023, Lely, a leading player in automated systems and data management for dairy farmers, reported a noteworthy 25% revenue growth, reaching a total turnover of €888 million (compared to €704 million in 2022).

Family-owned farm machinery and management business Lely is selling its forage harvesting machines branch of the business. It will be bought by Agco, the global machinery manufacturer that owns the Massey Ferguson, Fendt and Valtra brands.

Lely Industries N.V. is a Dutch agricultural machine and robots manufacturer which is based in Maassluis, the Netherlands. It is considered as one of the leading dairy robot manufacturers.

Robots are good at milking and can harvest high-quality milk consistently. Robots improve lifestyle, decrease labor and allow family labor to milk more cows. Proper management is key to robot success. Using our comparison tool can help you decide if it's better for you to invest in robots or parlors.

Good quality robots are expensive. For a robot that can milk 50 to 70 cows each, it costs $150,000 to $200,000 per robot (Dairy-Cattle, 2019). For some farms, labor costs may be less than the cost of the robots. Older cows may not be willing to adjust to the new milking system, causing a decrease in milk production.

How long does a robot take to milk a cow? ›

From start to finish, the whole process takes around 7 minutes. When you consider that cows usually get milked 2-3 times per day, this means that they spend no more than 21 minutes in an entire day being milked.

This can still result in fairly large groups. A double-20 parlor can handle a group size of 150 cows, a double-30 can milk 228 cows, and a double-50 could do 380 cows.

Rapid exit parlors can get all of the cows out in less than 10 seconds. This is the bottom line for milking time in a double-12 parlor: It should take about 12 minutes per side to milk, or around five turns per hour. This translates to 60 cows per side per hour, or 120 cows per hour.

When milk first comes out of a cow, it is warm and must be cooled and kept at below 40 degrees F in a cooling tank or else it will spoil. It would take you 1 hour to milk six cows by hand. However, with a milking machine, you could milk 100 cows in the same time.

Whereas a beef-suckler cow would naturally produce around 4 litres of milk per day, a dairy cow will produce an average of 28 litres per day over a period of 10 months. During peak lactation, a high-yielding cow may produce as much as 60 litres per day and up to 12,000 litres over her whole lactation.