Promise of 36% less work for AMS dairy farmers

Farmers at the recent Teagasc Moorepark Dairy Open Day learned how an automatic milking system (AMS) can change farming life.

About 50% of all new milking parlours installed in many EU countries (except Ireland) are AM systems.

In order to study how they can work as part of Irish grazing systems, Teagasc staff are monitoring the machines on seven farms which have between one and four AMS units each, and comparing them with dairy farms where milking is done in the usual way.