Tech focus: Australian study on robotic milking

Australian researchers may have found a flaw in robotic milking of grazing cows.

The milking order of dairy cows in robotic milking is relatively consistent — and the same applies to their access to pasture after they visit the milking machine.

Some cows tend to be last into the milking parlour — which can leave them regularly eating lower quality grass, because they are last to rotate into new pasture after milking.